Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly news podcast co-created by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Each episode looks at the latest news in online speech, covering issues regarding trust & safety, content moderation, regulation, court rulings, new services & technology, and more.
The podcast regularly features expert guests with experience in the trust & safety/online speech worlds, discussing the ins and outs of the news that week and what it may mean for the industry. Each episode takes a deep dive into one or two key stories, and includes a quicker roundup of other important news. It's a must-listen for trust & safety professionals, and anyone interested in issues surrounding online speech.
If your company or organization is interested in sponsoring Ctrl-Alt-Speech and joining us for a sponsored interview, visit ctrlaltspeech.com for more information.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is produced with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, a fiscally-sponsored multi-donor fund at Global Impact that supports charitable activities to build a more robust, capable, and inclusive Trust and Safety ecosystem and field.
Episodes
48 episodes
Backdoors and Backsteps
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben are joined by a group of students from the Media Law and Policy class at the American University School of Communication. Toge...
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Episode 47
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58:26
Digital Oligarchs Gunning for Europe (DOGE)
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
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Episode 46
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53:34
This Episode has Masculine Energy
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Renee DiResta, associate research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Th...
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Episode 45
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54:46
The TickTock on TikTok
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
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Episode 44
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53:02
Bullshit in a China Shop
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:TikTok Oral ...
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Episode 43
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54:37
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:Her...
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Episode 42
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55:18
How The Online Regulators Stole Christmas
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
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Episode 41
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52:31
Sometimes You Have to Whack Some Moles
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:He was suicid...
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Episode 40
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52:56
Comply & Demand
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:TikTok Ban Upheld (D...
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Episode 39
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1:03:16
Nothing to FCC Here
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host David Sullivan, the Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. They cover:
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Episode 38
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51:37
Locate Your Nearest X-it
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Spanish newspape...
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Episode 37
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51:41
Presidents & Precedents
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Pennsylvan...
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Episode 36
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45:18
Sorry, This Episode Will Not Cheer You Up
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:These l...
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Episode 35
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58:25
Minisode: The Robots Take Over Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Ben and Mike are technically off this week, but we decided to run an experiment. After discussing Google’s NotebookLM and its ability to create AI-generated podcasts about any content, Mike experimented with how it would handle one of the stori...
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Episode 34
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25:33
Regulate, Rinse, Repeat
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:How Ru...
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Episode 33
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1:00:30
An Appeal a Day Keeps the Censor Away
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:States sue TikTok o...
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Episode 32
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52:12
Moderation has a Well-Known Reality Bias
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Professor Kate Klonick, who has studied and written about trust & safety for many years and is currently st...
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Episode 31
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1:00:59
Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fakery?
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Cathryn Weems, who has held T&S roles at Yahoo, Google, Dropbox, Twitter and Epic Games. They cover:
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Episode 30
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1:07:23
Smells Like Teen Safety
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
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Episode 29
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51:52
Blunder from Down Under
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Riana Pfefferkorn, a Policy Fellow at...
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Episode 28
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54:50
Judge, Jury and Moderator
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Social ...
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Episode 27
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55:20
The Platform to Prison Pipeline
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:TikTok...
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Episode 26
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53:03
ChatGPT Told Us Not to Say This, but YOLO
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Daphne Keller, the Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center. They cove...
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Episode 25
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1:01:35