Ben Whitelaw is the founder and editor of Everything in Moderation, an independent media outlet focused on content moderation and the policies, products, platforms and people shaping its future. Its weekly newsletter has over 2,200 subscribers including many working in trust and safety at Meta, Twitter, Google, Linkedin, Bytedance, Spotify and Hinge as well as leading experts working in academia, media, government, civil society, and trust and safety technology companies. 

It has been called an “excellent weekly newsletter on content moderation politics” by internet policy expert Heather Burns, “mustread content for those in the trust & safety space” by Justin Davis, CEO of Spectrum Labs AI, and “an essential read” by Alice Goguen Hunsberger, VP, Global Head of Customer Experience at Grindr.

Mike Masnick is the founder and editor of Techdirt, where he has been chronicling the online speech world for more than 25 years, and is widely respected as an influential observer of the space. According to a recent New York Times profile:

"Whenever tech policy news breaks I always want to see what Mike’s take is going to be," said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, in a statement. Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, has called him "insightful and reasonable." The tech entrepreneur Anil Dash said he "shows up and ships every day" and has been "filing constantly for decades on a beat that is thankless."