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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (The Markup)
- New Tools to Help Protect Against Sextortion and Intimate Image Abuse (Meta)
- Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide (Bloomberg)
- The AI That Could Heal a Divided Internet (TIME)
- Mexican election agency and news organizations leverage Check (Meedan)
- Benjamin Cohen was falsely accused of the Bondi Junction stabbings. Here's how the lie spread around the world (ABC News)
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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).
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