Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Internet

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Fadzai Madzingira, a digital policy expert with a decade of experience at Meta, Salesforce, Ofcom and currently Twitch, where she leads the policy, outreach and education teams. Together, they discuss:
• Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board (platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-c…) (Platformer)
• Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution (podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/episodes/184…) (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
• What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots (nytimes.com/2026/04/04/technology/ai-chatbots-…) (The New York Times)
• Early Lessons from Australia's Teen Social Media Ban for the Rest of the World (techpolicy.press/early-lessons-from-australias…) (Tech Policy Press)
• Stuck in the Middleware with Youth with Vaishnavi J (podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/episodes/183…) (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
• Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, calls on EU action (reuters.com/business/media-telecom/greece-ban-…) (Reuters)
• The Family Tech Cycle: Navigating Screens, Devices, and Social Media (joanganzcooneycenter.org/publication/the-famil…) (Joan Ganz Cooney Center)
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