Zuck and Cover

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

• Here's why Meta ended fact-checking, according to experts (ABC News)
• Meta Follows Elon Musk’s Lead, Moves Staffers to Billionaire-Friendly Texas (Wired)
• Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” (The Intercept)
• Trust & Safety is how platforms put values into action (T&S Insider from Everything in Moderation)
• Nadler Releases Democratic Staff Report on Republicans' Deluded Theory to Undermine Free Speech (House Committee on the Judiciary)
• EU vows to 'energetically' pursue X probe under Digital rulebook (Bloomberg)
• Twitter Briefly Blocked The NY Post, Elon Cried Foul. Now He’s Doing Far Worse (Techdirt)
• The Great Decentralization (Noema Mag)

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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).