This One Weird Trick to Save the Open Internet

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Alex Feerst, former General Counsel and head of trust & safety at Medium, and co-founder of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. Together they cover:Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability? (Techdirt)EU Commission opens formal proceedings against Facebook and Instagram under the Digital Services Act (European Commission)OnlyFans Investigated over its duties to protect under-18s from restricted materials (Ofcom)Canadian banks need to do more to stop abusive e-transfers, survivors say (CBC)TikTok And Meta Aren’t Labeling State Propaganda About The War In Gaza (Forbes)How we fought bad apps and bad actors in 2023 (Google security blog)Meta’s oversight body prepares to lay off workers (Washington Post)This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.  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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