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 managing partner of Nzili & Sumbi Advocates. Together, they cover:

• Meta can be sued in Kenya for human trafficking and for algorithmic amplification of harm (Open Democracy)
• Billy Perrigo on investigating Facebook's 'ethical' outsourced content moderation in Kenya (Everything in Moderation)
• A first look at Meta’s Community Notes (Indicator Media)
• Get Noted (Columbia Journalism Review)
• The Meaning of Being an African YouTuber: Big Audiences, No Big Money + Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (Fast Company)
• Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (OkayAfrica)
• I was tricked, tortured, finally freed: inside a Burmese scam farm (The Times)
• Tanzania announces shutdown of X because of pornography (BBC)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).