from the ctrl-alt-speech dept

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:

• Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference (New York Times)
• AI-Generated Content a Triple Threat for Reddit Moderators (Cornell Tech)
• Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404 Media)
• As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era? (The Conversation)
• Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength (The Conversation)
• Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers (Wired)

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Clavata.ai, a first-of-its-kind, automated content safety platform that allows you to go from defining a policy to enforcement in minutes. In our Bonus Chat, we speak with founder Brett Levenson on how to make T&S more consistent and explainable and the benefits of treating policy as code.

Filed Under: age verification, ai, artificial intelligence, content moderation, disinformation, misinformation, social media
Companies: reddit, tinder, wikipedia