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Age Old Questions
02/04/2026 | 50 mins.
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
It's official: Australia's teen social media ban isn't working, yet (Crikey)
Social Media Minimum Age - Compliance update (eSafety Commision)
Blunder from Down Under (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
April 3 could create a dangerous gap in child safety across Europe (Thorn)
Commissioners pile pressure on Parliament to pass child sexual abuse bill (POLITICO)
Weeks After Denouncing Government Censorship On Rogan, Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk Offering To Take Down Content For DOGE (Techdirt)
What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O. (The New York Times)
This Episode is Broadly Safe To Listen To (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
Meta will "substantially reduce" describing Instagram teen accounts as PG-13 (Engadget)
Rated R for Ridiculous (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
If you’ve got Elon Musk in your Ctrl-Alt-Speech 2026 Bingo Card this week, you’re in luck.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at [email protected] and sponsorship enquiries to [email protected]. Thanks for listening.
For Meta or Worse
26/03/2026 | 53 mins.
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
How London become a T&S hub (Everything in Moderation)
Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For (Techdirt)
Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider in Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music (New York Times)
US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties (Reuters)
Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation (The Register)
Transparency Report 2025 (User Rights)
An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked (The Verge)
Don’t forget to listen along with Ctrl-Alt-Speech’s 2026 Bingo Card and drop us a line if you win or have ideas for new squares.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at [email protected] and sponsorship enquiries to [email protected]. Thanks for listening.
Money for Nothing and Clicks for a Fee
19/03/2026 | 52 mins.
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story (Times of Israel)
Maybe Turning War Into a Casino Was a Bad Idea? (The Atlantic)
French music streamer Deezer battles deluge of AI fraud (Financial Times)
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes (BBC)
US to Receive $10 Billion Fee for TikTok Deal, WSJ Reports (Bloomberg)
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back (404 Media)
‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ (The Guardian)
Play along with Ctrl-Alt-Speech’s 2026 Bingo Card and get in touch if you win!
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at [email protected] and sponsorship enquiries to [email protected]. Thanks for listening.
Writing Some Wrongs
12/03/2026 | 52 mins.
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it (Platformer)
Grammarly has disabled its tool offering generative-AI feedback credited to real writers (Engadget)
Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature (Wired)
Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (NY Times)
Molly vs the Machines review – a powerful story of love, loss and the dangers of social media (Guardian)
UK: New Molly Russell documentary provides further evidence that social media needs complete redesign (Amnesty International)
WhatsApp is launching parent-linked accounts for pre-teens (TechCrunch)
Meta urged to boost oversight of fake AI videos (BBC)
Play along with Ctrl-Alt-Speech’s 2026 Bingo Card and get in touch if you win!
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at [email protected] and sponsorship enquiries to [email protected]. Thanks for listening.
The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour
05/03/2026 | 52 mins.
In a special episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Ben and Mike discuss (with apologies to Tay-Tay) the three eras of content moderation in the media and what comes next.
Their conversation builds on Ben’s essay in the soon-to-be-published Trust, Safety, and the Internet We Share Multistakeholder Insights, a new book looking at the evolution of the Trust & Safety industry and how platform policies decisions are made. The pre-print is available online.
Together, they unpack three distinct phases: The Strange Fascination Era (2003–2015), when newsrooms powered platform growth and treated social media as an exciting new frontier; The “We’re Watching You” Era (2016–2020), when investigative reporting exposed online harms and pushed platforms to formalise Trust & Safety; and The Mask Off Era (2021–present), as platforms retreat from working with the media and the commitment to moderation waned.
We’ll be back next week with our regular episode.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at [email protected] and sponsorship enquiries to [email protected]. Thanks for listening.

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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.

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