A Tale of Two Internets

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
• Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference (nytimes.com/2025/10/17/nyregion/wikipedia-conf…) (New York Times)
• AI-Generated Content a Triple Threat for Reddit Moderators (tech.cornell.edu/news/ai-reddit-moderators) (Cornell Tech)
• Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dan…) (404 Media)
• As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era? (theconversation.com/as-social-media-age-restri…) (The Conversation)
• Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength (theconversation.com/winning-with-misinformatio…) (The Conversation)
• Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers (wired.com/story/tinder-launches-mandatory-faci…) (Wired)
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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 (techdirt.com)) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation (everythinginmoderation.co)).