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Ctrl-Alt-Speech

Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw

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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130 эпизодов

  1. Teaser: Mike & Ben Review The Social Reckoning 13:37
  2. A Midterm Night’s Dream 40:32
  3. Meta Had A Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams 41:35
  4. No Good Feed Goes Unpunished 39:11
  5. Like Herding Chats 38:51
  6. Going to the Ballot Bot 39:15
  7. Some Assembly Required 37:06
  8. No Child Left Online 36:11
  9. Duty of Careful What You Wish For 41:10
  10. License to Spill 42:01
  11. Move Fast and Settle Things 34:54
  12. School of Hard Blocks 42:12
  13. Watermark My Words 41:17
  14. In the Modi for Takedowns 37:33
  15. Zuck Starts Throwing His Weights Around 38:24
  16. Live at TrustCon 2026 56:32
  17. Spotlight: PwC’s Dan Hays on the future of Trust & Safety 39:20
  18. Putting Some Meat On The Bans 52:14
  19. Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies 36:41
  20. Making the Best of a Ban Situation 47:10
  21. Teaser: The Ctrl-Alt-Speech Reading List 14:38
  22. Close Your Apps and Think of England 44:30
  23. Cupertino d'État 37:57
  24. Generous to a Default 42:54
  25. Deus vs. Machina 39:03
  26. Message in a Bottleneck 54:20
  27. The Human Element in the Room 51:24
  28. Age Against the Machine 52:31
  29. Celebrating 100 Episodes & Launching Our Patreon 29:56
  30. The Silence of the LLMs 52:27
  31. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Internet 51:12
  32. Age Old Questions 50:31
  33. For Meta or Worse 53:09
  34. Money for Nothing and Clicks for a Fee 52:08
  35. Writing Some Wrongs 52:29
  36. The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour 52:59
  37. Let Fly the Claudes of War, with Casey Newton 47:09
  38. Panic! At The Discord 47:42
  39. FAFO: Claude Goes High Brow With Its Super Bowl Ad & "Constitution"; OpenAI Scrambles 53:20
  40. C'est la Vile Content 51:25
  41. Think Globally, Stack Locally 55:36
  42. This Episode is Broadly Safe to Listen To 46:30
  43. We’ve Hit Grok Bottom 51:02
  44. Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution 35:31
  45. Making Our 2026 Bingo Card 44:33
  46. Have Yourself a Very Meta Christmas 53:46
  47. Censors & Sensibility 1:03:52
  48. Stuck in the Middleware with Youth 46:23
  49. Spotlight: Building Better CSAM Detection with Resolver’s George Vlasto 34:08
  50. You Can't Antitrust Anyone These Days 53:01