For Meta or Worse

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 (everythinginmoderation.co/london-trust-safety-…) (Everything in Moderation)
• Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For (techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-…) (Techdirt)
• Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider in Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music (nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/supreme-cou…) (New York Times)
• US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties (reuters.com/legal/government/us-settles-social…) (Reuters)
• Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation (theregister.com/2026/03/20/meta_ai_content_mod…) (The Register)
• Transparency Report 2025 (user-rights.org/en/transparency-report) (User Rights)
• An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked (theverge.com/tech/898402/tumblr-automated-acco…) (The Verge)
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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)).