Episode Details

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by Dave Willner, founder of Zentropi, and long-time trust & safety expert who worked at Facebook, AirBnB, and OpenAI in Trust & Safety roles. Together they discuss:

• Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well (Techdirt)
• UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data (Financial Times)
• Imgur pulls out of UK after data regulator warns of fines (TechCrunch)
• Leaked Meta guidelines show how it trains AI chatbots to respond to child sexual exploitation prompts (Business Insider)
• OpenAI's Sora joins Meta in pushing AI-generated videos. Some are worried about a flood of 'AI slop' (ABC News)
• Flights in Afghanistan grounded after internet shutdown (BBC)

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).