Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Moderation Has A Well-Known Reality Bias

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Professor Kate Klonick, who has studied and written about trust & safety for many years and is currently studying the DSA & DMA in the EU as a Fulbright Scholar. They cover:

• EU Commission’s Digital Fairness Fitness Check (European Commission)
• Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions (Nature)
• Inside Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech’s Anti-Terrorism Group (Wired)
• Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats (Techdirt)
• Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers (404 Media)
• Americans’ Views Mixed on Tech’s Role in Politics (Anchor Change with Katie Harbath)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor TaskUs, a leading company in the T&S field which provides a range of platform integrity and digital safety solutions. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, Marlyn Savio, a psychologist and research manager at TaskUs, talks to Mike about a recent study they released regarding frontline moderators and their perceptions and experiences dealing with severe content.