The Comedy of Errors

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
• Facebook & Content Moderation (youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo) (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
• Australia takes enforcement action against Telegram for serious delay in terror and child sexual abuse transparency (esafety.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/austral…) (eSafety Commission)
• US judge says Trump Media, Rumble need not follow Brazilian order they deem censorship (reuters.com/world/americas/us-judge-says-trump…) (Reuters)
• Why the Rumble Suit Against a Brazilian Justice is Not About Free Speech (techpolicy.press/why-the-rumble-suit-against-a…) (Tech Policy Press)
• Underage Users at Meta, Snap Show Large Australian Breaches (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/underag…) (Bloomberg)
• ‘Big Tech Censorship’ of Users Targeted by Trump’s FTC Chief (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-20/-big-te…) (Bloomberg)
• Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence (404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-…) (404 Media)
• Meta’s ‘free speech’ revamp divides oversight board (ft.com/content/64f7a0d8-1b9c-456d-890e-f39a227…) (Financial Times)
• Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here's How She Got Them Taken Down (wired.com/story/deepfake-survivor-breeze-liu-m…) (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)).