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Ctrl-Alt-Speech · Oct 9, 2026 · 38m · transcript

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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:

The Official Sonic Discord Server’s Launch Went About As Poorly As You’d Expect (Kotaku)

Vladimir Putin's Forkiverse (Search Engine)

They trade child sex abuse material. They find each other on TikTok (Prospect)

Meta rolls out new AI tools to detect ads that secretly lead to child sexual abuse material (TechCrunch)

TikTok gave teens, children placebo safety feature in experiment, New York alleges (Reuters)

DNS Resolver Quad9…