Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Internet
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Fadzai Madzingira, a digital policy expert with a decade of experience at Meta, Salesforce, Ofcom and currently Twitch, where she leads the policy, outreach and education teams. Together, they discuss:
- Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board (Platformer)
- Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
- What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots (The New York Times)
- Early Lessons from Australia's Teen Social Media Ban for the Rest of the World (Tech Policy Press)
- Stuck in the Middleware with Youth with Vaishnavi J (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
- Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, calls on EU action (Reuters)
- The Family Tech Cycle: Navigating Screens, Devices, and Social Media (Joan Ganz Cooney Center)
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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).