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. 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.
If your company or organization is interested in sponsoring Ctrl-Alt-Speech and joining us for a sponsored interview, visit ctrlaltspeech.com for more information.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is produced with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, a fiscally-sponsored multi-donor fund at Global Impact that supports charitable activities to build a more robust, capable, and inclusive Trust and Safety ecosystem and field.
Episodes
37 episodes
Presidents & Precedents
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Pennsylvan...
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Episode 36
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45:18
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 l...
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Episode 35
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58:25
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 podcasts about any content, Mike experimented with how it would handle one of the stori...
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Episode 34
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25:33
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 Ru...
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Episode 33
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1:00:30
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 o...
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Episode 32
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52:12
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, who has studied and written about trust & safety for many years and is currently st...
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Episode 31
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1:00:59
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 held T&S roles at Yahoo, Google, Dropbox, Twitter and Epic Games. They cover:
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Episode 30
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1:07:23
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:
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Episode 29
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51:52
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 Policy Fellow at...
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Episode 28
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54:50
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 ...
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Episode 27
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55:20
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...
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Episode 26
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53:03
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 Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center. They cove...
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Episode 25
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1:01:35
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:
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Episode 24
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52:52
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...
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Episode 23
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1:03:09
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:
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Episode 22
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1:03:04
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 Hunsberger, PartnerHero’s VP of Trust & Safety and Content Moderation, to round up the...
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Episode 21
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1:00:50
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 prosocial voice technology that combats on...
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Episode 20
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36:07
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:
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Episode 19
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53:21
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, Senior Director, Trust & Safety at Trustpilot. Together they cover:
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Episode 18
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43:24
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 speech: the Supreme Court’s ruling in the NetChoice cases, which sends the Texas and Florid...
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Episode 17
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19:23
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:
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Episode 16
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55:39
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...
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Episode 15
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52:44
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:
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Episode 14
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49:21
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 trust & safety at Twitter and now head of trust & safety at Match Group. Tog...
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Episode 13
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52:44