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 & safety influencer Alice Hunsberger from Musubi and Ashken Kazaryan, a Senior Legal Fellow at the Future of Free Speech at Vanderbilt University. They cover:

• As millions adopt Grok to fact-check, misinformation abounds (Al Jazeera)
• Analysis Of Grok’s Epstein Comments Show How This AI Chatbot Is Learning (Forbes)
• People With Body Dysmorphia Are Spiraling Out After Asking AI to Rate Their Looks (Rolling Stone)
• Can A Chatbot Be Your Therapist? Casper’s Neil Parikh Launches A New $93 Million-Backed Startup To Try (Forbes)
• A Realist Perspective on Trust & Safety (Tech Policy Press)

This week’s sponsor is Modulate. In our bonus chat Mike Masnick talks with Modulate founder and CEO Mike Pappas, live at TrustCon, about the kinds of voice scams they’re seeing, with a focus on scams using social engineering techniques to pressure people to do things they probably shouldn’t do.

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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 Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise (404 Media)
• Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People (404 Media)
• Ofcom head says age checks are ‘really big moment’ for children’s online safety (The Guardian)
• New online safety rules not 'the end of the conversation', says minister (BBC)
• Commission’s guidelines for online child safety target platforms of all sizes (Euractiv)
• I met the sextortion scammers destroying young lives for £1 a day (The Times)
• “Why me?” On shame, self-blame, and feeling so. damn. Stupid. (Blockparty)
• If It Breaks Wikipedia, It’s Probably Bad Policy (InternetExchange)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund and by our sponsor, the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. In our bonus chat Mike talks with DTSP Executive Director David Sullivan to talk about their new Safe Framework Specification, which is an official ISO standard (available for free download) which will help everyone better understand best practices and concepts around online trust & safety work.

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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 bogus DMCA (X)
• The cofounder of the viral AI 'cheating' startup Cluely says he only hires people for 2 jobs (Business Insider)
• Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) (Techdirt)
• Instagram wrongly accuses some users of breaching child sex abuse rules (BBC)
• Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X (FT)
• Grok Becomes ‘MechaHitler,’ Twitter Becomes X: How Centralized Tech Is Prone To Fascist Manipulation (Techdirt)
• See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried (Crikey)
• New anti-fraud system is labelling hospital texts and other legitimate messages as ‘likely scam’ (Irish Independent)
• Why Ireland’s New “Scam Likely” Labels Might Actually Make SMS Fraud Worse for Banks and the Public (Medium)

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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 Misinformation (Cato Institute) 
• Claims that Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown ‘Radically Understates’ the Scale of the Threat (Byline Times)
• EU Disinformation Code Takes Effect Amid Censorship Claims and Trade Tensions (Tech Policy Press)
• Content Moderation Is Not Censorship (Law & Liberty)
• Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out (The Journal)
• The Hidden Human Cost of AI Moderation (Jacobin)
• Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts (Rest of World)
• X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots (The Verge)

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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 and culture writer, speaker and trainer and host of two great podcasts, There are No Girls on the Internet and IRL: Online Life is Real Life. Together, they cover:

• AI Models And Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’ (404 Media)
• Trial reveals flaws in tech intended to enforce Australian social media ban for under-16s (The Guardian)
• Inside /r/SGExams: Meet the young volunteers behind 1 of S’pore’s largest online forums for students (Straits Times)
• The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back (Rest of World)
• Man with real-life girlfriend and child proposes to AI chatbot after programming it to flirt: ‘I think this is actual love (New York Post)

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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)

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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 Pay Isn’t Great. (NY Times)
• The vulnerable teen drawn into far-right extremism online (Financial Times)
• X, Bluesky and Reddit in France’s crosshairs amid porn clampdown (Politico)
• EU sidesteps Macron’s ultimatum to ban social media for kids under 15 (Euractiv)
• Commission seeks feedback on the guidelines on protection of minors online under the Digital Services Act (European Commission)
• OnlyFans releases stern statement as it DEACTIVATES Bonnie Blue’s account for defiant reason (The Tab)

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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 founding Executive Director of the NYU Center for Social Media & Politics. Together, they cover:

• If algorithms radicalize a mass shooter, are companies to blame? (The Verge)
• Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders (Arxiv)
• A dangerous plan to ‘win’ the AI race is circulating (Washington Post)
• Texas governor signs law to enforce age verification on Apple, Google app stores (Reuters)
• AB 853: California AI Transparency Act.(CalMatters)
• Regulators Are Investigating Whether Media Matters Colluded With Advertisers (NY Times)
• Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (TechCrunch)
• Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’ (Wired)

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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 YouTube creator and educator. After spending some time talking about being a creator at the whims of platforms, they cover:

• Crash Course Coin (Complexly)
• Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (NY Mag)
• The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It (NY Times)
• How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future (NY Times)
• We Shouldn’t Have To Explain To The FTC Why Content Moderation Is So Crucial To Free Speech, But We Did (Techdirt)

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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 and First Amendment lawyer. Together, they cover:

• The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment (Techdirt)
• Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training (TechCrunch)
• Elon Musk’s X caves to ‘censorship’ demand from India as tensions build with Pakistan (AFP)
• In the government’s war on ‘disinformation’, facts are collateral damage (The Hindu)
• Elon Musk's Twitter: Indian government has asked us to block 8,000 accounts, however, we disagree as (Times of India)
• Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’ (Wired)
• White Afrikaner brought to US by Trump administration has history of antisemitic posts (The Guardian)
• U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism (NPR)
• Kanye’s Nazi Song Is All Over Instagram (404 Media)
• Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts (NY Times)
• Wikipedia fights the UK’s ‘flawed’ and ‘burdensome’ online safety rules (The Verge)
• What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression (Tech Policy Press)
• Missouri AG Thinks Supreme Court Ruling Lets Him Control Social Media Moderation (It Doesn’t) (Techdirt)

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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 America (Semafor)
• Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening (New York Times) 
• Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators (The Guardian) 
• Social media moderators’ lives are getting worse. Big Tech needs to take responsibility (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
• Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children (Wall Street Journal)
• Kids should avoid AI companion bots—under force of law, assessment says (CalMatters)
• I'm a mom who works in tech, and AI scares me. I taught my daughter these simple guidelines to spot fake content (Business Insider) 
• Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars (Financial Times)
• Meta slowest to remove scam content, says City watchdog (The Guardian)

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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 is everywhere (Wired)
• Wide-Ranging Decisions Protect Speech and Address Harms (Oversight Board)
• Meta’s oversight board rebukes company over policy overhaul (Reuters)
• Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (Techdirt)
• Most young Aussie men are turning to masculinity influencers, and it's impacting their mental health (ABC News)
• Young Men’s Health in a Digital World (Movember)
• Teens, Social Media and Mental Health (Pew Research Center)
• National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation (Nieman Lab)
• Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification (Wired)
• Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet (TechCrunch)

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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 Negotiations to End Antitrust Case (Wall Street Journal)
• Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage (The Verge) 
• Would You Give PornHub Your ID? (The Atlantic) 
• How Social-Media Sites Can Fight Hate Without Censorship (The Atlantic) 
• Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate, 2021)
• ASML Fellow Launches CLR:SKY (Berkman Klein Center)
• Block Party deep cleans your social media, notifications, settings, and more in one click
• Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media (The Guardian)
• OpenAI is building a social network (The Verge)

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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 executive director at the Internet Freedom Foundation and currently a fellow at Tech Policy Press. Together, they cover:

• BookMyShow Restores Kunal Kamra’s Profile After Controversy (Medianama)
• Kunal Kamra show audience members served notices (The Times of India)
• Cops force banker to cut short vacation to join Kamra probe (The Times of India)
• Unblock Vikatan Website – Madras High Court Orders Central Government (Vikatan)
• A Lack of Sense, and Censor-ability in India (Tech Policy Press)
• India befriends Big Tech as Trump tariffs knock on door, aided by a string of biz-friendly moves (Livemint)
• Meta can be sued in Kenya over posts related to Ethiopia violence, court rules (Reuters)
• US to screen social media of immigrants, rights advocates raise concerns (Reuters)
• In Karnataka HC, Centre defends use of IT Act for takedown notices (Hindustan Times) 

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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 in Fight Against Meta EU Ruling (WSJ)
• EU set to limit Apple and Meta fines to avoid ire of Donald Trump (Financial Times)
• Adolescence hard to watch as a dad, Starmer tells creators (BBC)
• ‘Adolescence’ on Netflix: A painful wake-up call about unregulated internet use for teens (The Conversation)
• Adolescence hits Netflix's Top 10 Global chart in just three weeks as it reaches over 96MILLION views (Daily Mail)
• Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral (NY Times)
• ESPN’s Pat McAfee and others amplified a false rumor. A teenager’s life was ‘destroyed’ (NY Times)
• Myanmar’s Internet Censorship Limits Information About Quake (NY Times)

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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, alleges arbitrary censorship of content (Business Standard)
• India criticises X for calling compliance website a censorship tool (Reuters)
• Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest (Politico)
• Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation (The Verge)
• Snapchat CEO Talks Zuckerberg, Content Moderation, AR Glasses and More (SocialMediaToday)
• YouTube CEO on content moderation: ‘Where the world was five years ago is very different’ than today (Semafor)
• Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts (Bloomberg)
• Ofcom fines provider of OnlyFans £1.05 million (Ofcom)
• A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting (Wired)

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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' Fascia Sign - An Iconic Fixture from the Company’s Market Square Headquarters in San Francisco (RR Auction)
• AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality (404 Media)
• Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content (Reuters)
• China Announces Generative AI Labeling to Cull Disinformation (Bloomberg) 
• After Axing Fact-Checkers, Meta’s Community Notes Will Have Help From X (Adweek)
• UK to crack down on illegal content across social media (Financial Times)
• Lobsters and the Online Safety Act (Lobste.rs)
• We are sorry. The forum has closed down (The Hamster Forum)
• ‘Kids can bypass anything if they’re clever enough!’ How tech experts keep their children safe online (The Guardian)
• The Snapchat Move That Leaves Teen Girls Heartbroken (WSJ)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund. If you’re in London on Thursday 27th March, join Ben, Mark Scott (Digital Politics) and Georgia Iacovou (Horrific/Terrific) for an evening of tech policy, discussion and drinks. Register your interest.

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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 online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media (YouTube)
• The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon (The Verge)
• Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned (Techdirt)
• Ex-Facebook employee alleges sexual harassment and human rights failures in new memoir (NBC News)
• Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book (CNBC) 
• Reddit's rule check feature will help users avoid breaking subreddit rules (Engadget)
• Users Make Voices Heard as Appeals Centre’s First Decisions Overturn Platforms (Appeals Centre Europe) 
• 'Pretty Vile:' Spotify Removes Andrew Tate 'Pimping Hoes' Class After Employees Complain (404 Media)
• Keep kids off Roblox if you're worried, its CEO tells parents (BBC)

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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 for Digital and Cyberspace Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and CEO of RightsDuff Strategies. They cover:

• Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (Techdirt)
• America’s Global Presence Isn’t ‘Soft Power.’ It’s a Superpower. (Foreign Policy)
• These teenage boys were blackmailed online – and it cost them their lives (USA Today)
• United Nations Convention against Cybercrime (UN)
• Chairman Jordan Subpoenas Big Tech for Information on Foreign Censorship of American Speech (House Judiciary Committee)

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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 (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
• Australia takes enforcement action against Telegram for serious delay in terror and child sexual abuse transparency (eSafety Commission) 
• US judge says Trump Media, Rumble need not follow Brazilian order they deem censorship (Reuters)
• Why the Rumble Suit Against a Brazilian Justice is Not About Free Speech (Tech Policy Press)
• Underage Users at Meta, Snap Show Large Australian Breaches (Bloomberg)
• ‘Big Tech Censorship’ of Users Targeted by Trump’s FTC Chief (Bloomberg)
• Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence (404 Media)
• Meta’s ‘free speech’ revamp divides oversight board (Financial Times)
• Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here's How She Got Them Taken Down (Wired)

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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. Together they cover:

• U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (Washington Post)
• US lawmakers respond to the UK’s Apple encryption backdoor request (Engadget)
• UK: Encryption order threatens global privacy rights (Human Rights Watch)
• Analysis: AI Summit emphasizes innovation and competition over trust and safety (DFR Lab)
• An overdue idea for making the internet safer just got the funding it needs (Platformer)
• Google-backed public interest AI partnership launches with $400M+ for open ecosystem building (Techcrunch)
• Britain dances to JD Vance’s tune as it renames AI institute (Politico) 
• Section 230 Still Works in the Fourth Circuit (For Now)–M.P. v. Meta (Eric Goldman)
• TikTok Opts to Not Take Section 230 Immunity Fight to the US Supreme Court (Law.com)
• Shopify says risk of fraud, not Nazi swastika, was reason for Kanye West store takedown (The Logic)

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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 Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous (Techdirt)
• US presses Brussels for answers over EU social media law (Politico)
• Inside the Elon Musk-Jim Jordan ‘mind meld’ shaking up Capitol Hill (Politico)
• Musk adds Shell, Nestlé, Lego to X advertiser ‘boycott’ lawsuit (The Hill)
• Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like (Techdirt)
• In wake of Meta moderation shift, advertisers have accepted new status quo: brand safety is a myth (Digiday)
• Meta sees no ‘noticeable impact’ in advertiser demand since content policy shift (Marketing Week)
• Amazon Raises Its Ad Spending on Elon Musk’s X, in Major Reversal (Wall Street Journal)
• Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek (404 Media)
• Apple Blasts EU Laws After First Porn App Comes to iPhones (Bloomberg)

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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. They cover:

• The new free speech crisis hiding in plain sight (MSNBC)
• ‘Free Speech’ Warrior RFK Jr. Has Been Trying To Censor a Blogger for Years (Who What Why)
• In motion to dismiss, chatbot platform Character AI claims it is protected by the First Amendment (TechCrunch)
• Trump Signs Agreement Calling for Meta to Pay $25 Million to Settle Suit (WSJ)
• Meta’s Free-Speech Shift Made It Clear to Advertisers: ‘Brand Safety’ Is Out of Vogue (WSJ)
• X refuses to remove stabbing video watched by Southport killer (Financial Times)

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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 Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok (The White House)
• Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship (The White House)
  America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet (The Atlantic)
• Good morning, America: Why India banned TikTok 5 years back (India Today)
• Facebook, X, YouTube to do more against online hate speech, EU says (Reuters)
• Commission welcomes the integration of the revised Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online into the Digital Services Act (European Commission)
• Bluesky 2024 Moderation Report (Bluesky)
• Bluesky's 2024 moderation report shows how quickly harmful content grew as new users flocked in (Engadget)
• The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification (Techdirt)
• We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky (MIT Technology Review)

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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 Court)
• Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S. (NBC News)
• Trump considers executive order hoping to ‘save TikTok’ from ban or sale in U.S. law (Washington Post)
• TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban (Techdirt)
• Meta employees criticize Zuckerberg decisions to end fact-checking (CNBC)
• Meta moderators were already in Texas before Zuckerberg announced move, say ex-workers (The Guardian)
• Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All (Wired)
• Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States (Platformer)
• Brazil expresses concern over Meta’s changes to content moderation (Al Jazeera)
• EU reassesses tech probes into Apple, Google and Meta (Financial Times)
• Despite DEI & content moderation reversals, advertisers won’t flee Meta (The Drum)
• Meta’s ‘free speech’ overhaul sparks advertisers’ concern (Financial Times)
• French Woman Says AI Brad Pitt Scammed Her Out of $850K (Hollywood Reporter)
• French TV show pulled after ridicule of woman who fell for AI Brad Pitt (The Guardian)
• Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub (404 Media)

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