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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…
Episodes
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You Asked, We Answered
This is the second of our special episodes for the month of August. Last time, we talked a bit about the past and future of Ctrl-Alt-Speech; this time, Mike…
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What's Next for Ctrl-Alt-Speech
We're taking a little break from our regular weekly news roundups this month, but we've got a couple special episodes lined up in the mean time, starting with…
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Live at TrustCon 2025
Our second annual live at TrustCon recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! Ben was unable to make the trip halfway around the world, but Mike was joined by trust &…
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The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is…
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Move Fast and Mistake Things
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Jack Cable calls out Cluely over…
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Don't Believe What This Podcast Says About Misinformation
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: The Misleading Panic over…
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Teen But Not Heard
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Bridget Todd, a technology…
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Outsourced But Not Out Of Mind
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Mercy Mutemi, lawyer and…
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Outrage For The Machine
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The…
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Algorithm Shrugged
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Zeve Sanderson, the…
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Moderation Without Representation
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Hank Green, popular…
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Hypocritical Infrastructure
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Cathy Gellis, an internet…
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Look What The Chat Dragged In
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: The group chats that changed…
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Red Pills & Blue Checks
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: 4chan is dead. It's Toxic Legacy…
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Why Can't We De-Friend
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed…
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Can't Take(down) A Joke?
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Prateek Waghre, former…
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World Wide Wedge Issue
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Zuckerberg Tries to Enlist Trump…
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Chief Equivocation Officer
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: X takes Indian govt to court…
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Once You Slop, You Can't Stop
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Twitter Inc. Official 'Bird Logo'…
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The TAKE IT DOWN Takedown
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is In this week's round-up of the latest news in…
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E Pluribus Chaos
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Kat Duffy, Senior Fellow…
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The Comedy of Errors
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Facebook & Content Moderation…
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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…
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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: Elon’s Twitter Destruction…
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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…
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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: Application Of Protecting…
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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 Arguments (Supreme…
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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…
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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: Social media platforms have work…
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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 suicidal and needed help. A…
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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 (DC Circuit)…
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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…
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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 newspaper La Vanguardia…
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Presidents & Precedents
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Pennsylvania Becomes Hot Spot for…
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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 look like Harris ads. Trump…
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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…
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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 Russian disinformation is…
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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 over app’s…
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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…
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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…
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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: Breton’s resignation could mark a…
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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…
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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 networks can’t be forced to…
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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 must face a lawsuit for…
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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…
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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: EU takes shot at Musk over Trump…
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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 adds Techdirt founder Mike…
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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: Jim Jordan Demands Advertisers…
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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…
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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…
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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: Russia and China pounce on Trump…
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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…
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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…
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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: Supreme Court Sees Through The…
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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’m Calling…
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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: Meta says it won’t support suit…
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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…
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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: EU Explores Whether Telegram Falls…
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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 link up with…
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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…