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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Yoel Roth, former head of trust & safety at Twitter and now head of trust & safety at Match Group. Together they cover:
- X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (TechCrunch)
- Temu joins Shein in facing stricter regulation in the EU (The Verge)
- Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams (404 Media)
- Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter (Nature)
- Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation (Nature)
- Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War (NY Times)
- Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council (CNBC)
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).
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