The Comedy of Errors

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

• Facebook & Content Moderation (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
• Australia takes enforcement action against Telegram for serious delay in terror and child sexual abuse transparency (eSafety Commission) 
• US judge says Trump Media, Rumble need not follow Brazilian order they deem censorship (Reuters)
• Why the Rumble Suit Against a Brazilian Justice is Not About Free Speech (Tech Policy Press)
• Underage Users at Meta, Snap Show Large Australian Breaches (Bloomberg)
• ‘Big Tech Censorship’ of Users Targeted by Trump’s FTC Chief (Bloomberg)
• Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence (404 Media)
• Meta’s ‘free speech’ revamp divides oversight board (Financial Times)
• Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here's How She Got Them Taken Down (Wired)

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).