Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation

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

• Meta says it won’t support suit against major child safety law (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...) (Washington Post)
• Obstacles to Autonomy: Post-Roe Removal of Abortion Information Online (https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/ob...) (Amnesty International)
• Abortion Groups Say Tech Companies Suppress Posts and Accounts (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/bu...) (NY Times)
• The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled (https://www.platformer.news/stanford-...) (Platformer)
• How Politics Broke Content Moderation (https://www.cjr.org/covering_the_elec...) (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Propagandists are using AI too—and companies need to be open about it (https://www-technologyreview-com.cdn....) (MIT Tech Review)
• The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative (https://restofworld.org/2024/twitter-...) (Rest of World)
• An Anonymous-Messaging App Upended This High School (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tec...) (WSJ)

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


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