The Bell Tolls for TikTok

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• How to Fix the Online Child Exploitation Reporting System (Stanford Internet Observatory)
• TikTok faces EU Commission’s second probe, potential suspension of reward program (Euronews)
• Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets (CNet)
• The biggest AI companies agree to crack down on child abuse images (Thorn)
• Wattpad has a community problem, so it’s killing DMs (The Verge)
• Discord CEO Jason Citron makes the case for a smaller, more private internet (The Verge)
• Stanford Internet Observatory’s CyberTipline Report (Stanford Law School) 

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).