Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Difficulty Of Being A Teen Online

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 round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (The Markup)
• New Tools to Help Protect Against Sextortion and Intimate Image Abuse (Meta)
• Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide (Bloomberg)
• The AI That Could Heal a Divided Internet (TIME)
• Mexican election agency and news organizations leverage Check (Meedan)
• Benjamin Cohen was falsely accused of the Bondi Junction stabbings. Here’s how the lie spread around the world (ABC News)

The episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.