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.
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Episodes
131 episodes
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:
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:
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Do Not Leave a Fake Review for this Podcast
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
Should Speech Cost a GARM and a Leg?
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Bluesky...
I Bet You Think This Block is About You
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
Live at TrustCon 2024
In the first ever live recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike and Ben are joined at TrustCon 2024 by Dona Bellow, Platform Safety Policy at Reddit, and Alice Hunsberger, PartnerHero’s VP of Trust & Safety and Content Moderation, to round up the...
Spotlight: Modulate CEO Mike Pappas on Voice Moderation
In this sponsored Spotlight episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, host Ben Whitelaw talks to Mike Pappas, the founder & CEO of our launch sponsor Modulate, which builds prosocial voice technology that combats on...
Conspiracies Abhor a Vacuum
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
Over to EU, Elon
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Domonique Rai-Varming, Senior Director, Trust & Safety at Trustpilot. Together they cover:
Minisode: The Supreme Court's NetChoice Ruling
Although our hosts are both on vacation this week, we didn’t want to leave our listeners waiting too long for an update on today’s big news about online speech: the Supreme Court’s ruling in the NetChoice cases, which sends the Texas and Florid...
A Lack of (Under)Standing
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
This Podcast May be Hazardous to Moral Panics
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Surgeon General: Why I...
Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
The Internet is (Still) for Porn, with Yoel Roth
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. Tog...
Won't Someone Please Think of the Adults?
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
Deepfake It Till You Make It
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta and Coinbase li...
Do You Really Want the Government in Your DMs?
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Commission opens formal proceedin...
Between a Rock and a Hard Policy
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
This One Weird Trick to Save the Open Internet
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Alex Feerst, former General Counsel and head of trust & safety at Medium, and co-founder of the Digital Tr...