Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Meta Had A Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams

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 episode, Ben is joined by Jeff Horwitz, an investigative reporter for Thomson Reuters and author of Broken Code, which expands on the award-winning series ‘The Facebook Files’ and partly inspired The Social Reckoning. Together they discuss:

• Rhode Island sues Meta over alleged tolerance for scam advertising (Reuters)
• Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case (The Guardian)
• Joel Kaplan leaves Meta (Platformer)
• Hooked on YouTube (NBC News)
• Anthropic gives third-party auditors ’employee-like access’ in AI industry first (ZDNET)
• A moderator’s death exposes an industry-wide crisis (Uni Global Union)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• TikTok staff raised child safety alarms. Court records show executives failed to act (NPR)

Our fun links this week include an archive/newsletter of the most visited Wikipedia page from the prior day and puppies doing their best to navigate through mazes.

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