Meta Had A Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams, Lotta Scams
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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)
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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) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).