Hard to take this at face value when it’s coming from someone with a long history of extreme misogyny. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Elon Musk calling accountability for nonconsensual sexual images an "excuse of for censorship" perfectly exposes the lie at the heart of his "censorship industrial complex" crusade. When addressing abusive material of women and children is labeled "censorship," the term has lost all meaning.

You don't get to turn your chatbot into a tool of mass sexualized harassment and then two weeks later say the problem is fixed because the abusers have to pay for the privilege.

This job would be so fun. You would just put up one billboard that said "Buy Nvidia chips" and then at the end of the quarter send an email that says "great news! We sold 100 percent of our chips this quarter" and attach a picture of the billboard

Big fan of @brihreed.bsky.social's Nieman Lab prediction and the way he unpacks his own changing mindset about social media regulation in the US. Go and read, then fight your way through the other 200+ predictions www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...

Bluesky, do your thing

Good news; a judge has blocked the detention of a technology researcher that the State Department had slated to deport. However, this is just the start of what will certainly be a longer-term challenge. What can we do about this? A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

I’m usually Struijk’s biggest critic but he’s been colossal today. Needed to be with Rodon going off. Big sexy pirate is back #LUFC

If we’d scored that goal under Marcelo, people would still be talking about it. Back to front in a flash #LUFC

Last Ctrl-Alt-Speech of the year is coming out shortly, but with this new trend of EVERY DAMN SERVICE on the internet doing a year-end "wrapped" here's our podcasting service, Riverside, showing that @benwhitelaw.bsky.social and I laugh a lot. It's... kinda creepy.

Labeling is censorship. Fact-checking is censorship. Since the EU fined X, transparency & data access are censorship too. Anything that moderately inconveniences a right-wing populist is censorship — even as MAGA increasingly realizes that X is riddled with scams. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Soooo… I interviewed Liz Truss about her new non-club club as.ft.com/r/a3431eea-f...

It’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech recording day! @mmasnick.bsky.social and I are limbering up our vocal cords to talk about this week's online speech, content moderation and internet regulation stories. What burning topic should we determinedly over-analyse first? Which questions you desperately want answered?

Australian adults: under 16s don't understand tech or policy and need us to protect them Zoe: hold my (ginger) beer

I received 203 emails a day last month. 80% went unread. I ran a Python script on my inbox to find out why, then wrote a report about it. It's to help me inform workshops where I try to help PRs produce better pitches (which helps me produce better stories) www.stokel-walker.com/s/The-signal...

Farke’s three subs were spot-on today. A goal, and two assists from the #LUFc trio that came on after an hour. The German has got everything right over the last week

That Stach goal was all Aaronson. Popped up on the #LUFC left and took the initiative. Lovely stuff

We’re only four days into December but we’ve already seen Goal of the Month, maybe the season

Do not ask why this just came up in a professional conversation, which it did, but my all-time favourite chart on Wikipedia is the line of succession of Sugababes. It's like a 17th century schism.

The #lufc left hand side is softer than a Creme Egg. Can’t remember a goal that didn’t come from bypassing Okafor and Gudmundsson with ease

Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop. It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!). I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: You Can't Antitrust Anyone These Days. podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis... I'm going to talk about the various stories we discussed this week, but make sure you read to the end as @benwhitelaw.bsky.social and I are giving a task to the internet...

This week's EiM's Week in Review has: • Digital Services Act progress report • Platforms sue US states over child‑safety legislation (again) • Antitrust case goes in Meta's favour • Judy Korn on how extremism is changing Read, share, subscribe www.everythinginmoderation.co/roblox-chat-...

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

Come for @leighb.bsky.social’s stellar episode title, stay for @mmasnick.bsky.social being ribbed about not yet reaching 200k Bluesky following #GetMiketo200k

“There’s a risk that today’s AI revolution will end up with the same old incentives and the same old outcomes. As AI locks into the same extractive patterns as the web giants, we can’t afford to ignore what that will mean for our future.” - @parmy.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Your Week in Review just dropped: 🇩🇰 Denmark scraps its "chat control" plans — for now 🇦🇺 Oz adds platforms to social media ban 🌍 New Integrity Institute CEO ...and more! Plus posts of note from @alixdunn.com, @rude1.blacksky.team and Suba Vasudevan. www.everythinginmoderation.co/france-shein...

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: New Blocks On The Kids (And yes, this may be my favorite title of an episode ever). podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis... @benwhitelaw.bsky.social & I talk about Australia blocking kids from more social apps (Reddit?!?) and how kids always find a way around blocks...

There's something quite wonderful about X/Twitter's Head of Global Government Affairs saying the company invests "significant resources to improve the enforcement capabilities across the world” *just days after* Elon said that it doesn't "censor people"

Chatbots your thing? This week’s edition of Week in Review is full of 'em: • Under 18s face Character.ai chatbots lockdown • OpenAI's transparency drive • Better platform data access for researchers • Former safety researcher speaks out 🔗 www.everythinginmoderation.co/characterai-...

Despite being one of the most milquetoast posters on the platform I'm on hundreds of moderation lists and blocked by nearly 5000 people. Not once has this impacted my life in any way whatsoever.

The safety policies of generative AI companies — and the subsequent threat of regulation — has been in the headlines for a while. This week, two companies facing big legal cases — OpenAI and Character.ai — set out to define the narrative, albeit in very different ways. 1/4

Didn’t foresee that gen AI would so quickly form part of the way that disenfranchised and generally unimpressed audiences get back at ‘legacy media’ but here we are www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.

It's Ctrl-Alt-Speech recording day and @mmasnick.bsky.social is back in the proverbial chair. What stories are you reading? What should we pick apart? And crucially, which website/app user prompt should we use to start today's episode?

Everything is content moderation (via friend of mine)

This chart (via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s latest article) adds another dimension to the transatlantic tech policy wars (beyond First Amendment differentiator). Social media platforms are a bigger part of public life and the usage sustains platform lobbyists and calls for voluntary codes.

Everything is content moderation.

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Moderating is Such Sweet Sorrow with guest host @dwillner.bsky.social who is entirely responsible for bringing up Shakespeare as part of this discussion. (@benwhitelaw.bsky.social will be back next week!) podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

No welcome from Tom Anderson?... I don't know about this

Some exciting news: this morning we launched a collaboration with @icrc.org: our Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict game. trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org

Pretty strange that the EU's new explainer on the Digital Services Act (what it is, how it's enforced, ongoing investigations) doesn't mention the one that's been going on the longest — against X/Twitter (from December 2023)

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

In case you missed it, here's the latest edition of EiM's Week in Review: • Parents criticise chatbots in US Senate • Uni of Pennsylvania publishes AI hate speech paper • How platforms reacted to Charlie Kirk's death • Uta Briesewitz on her new film www.everythinginmoderation.co/charlie-kirk...

Judge Merryday has no fucks left to give for Trump's defamation complaint against the NYT: "As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint isn't a public forum for vituperation & invective—not a protected platform to rage against an adversary" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We didn’t talk about Charlie Kirk in last week’s podcast because so little was known when we recorded. Seven days later, there was *too* much to wade through. @mmasnick.bsky.social and I tried our best to make sense of the platform and political chaos podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

i love that someone made this video

Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation

For media people looking for experts on alt-right online extremism I *highly* recommend: Northwestern Prof. Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social history.northwestern.edu/people/facul... Andrew Marantz, New Yorker Staff Writer author of www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562022...

“The fact that this thing still exists at all is a testament to how fucked we are as a nation”