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Teaser: The Ctrl-Alt-Speech Reading List
Jun 26, 2026
14m 38s
Close Your Apps and Think of England
Jun 19, 2026
44m 30s
Cupertino d'État
Jun 12, 2026
37m 57s
Generous to a Default
Jun 5, 2026
42m 54s
Deus vs. Machina
May 29, 2026
39m 03s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/26/26 | Teaser: The Ctrl-Alt-Speech Reading List | In a special bonus episode for our Patreon supporters, Mike and Ben discuss some of their favorite must-read books about online speech, platform power, and content moderation. This free teaser covers their first two picks: It’s Complicated by Danah Boyd and Behind the Screen by Sarah T. Roberts. To hear the full episode with all six books, become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter on Patreon. Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, pl... | 14m 38s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | Close Your Apps and Think of England | Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Jen Weedon, a T&S veteran of Meta and Niantic. She is currently consulting and teaching at Columbia school of International and Public Affairs. Together, Ben and Jen discuss: Jen Weedon on anticipating platform threats and how to manage burn... | 44m 30s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | Cupertino d'État✨ | child safetysocial media regulation+4 | — | The TimesBBC News+4 | CupertinoCanada | child safetysocial media+5 | — | 37m 57s | |
| 6/5/26 | Generous to a Default✨ | social mediateen safety+3 | — | InstagramFacebook+4 | — | MetaInstagram+5 | — | 42m 54s | |
| 5/29/26 | Deus vs. Machina✨ | AIInternet+3 | — | BlueskyPolitico+2 | — | AIPope+6 | — | 39m 03s | |
| 5/21/26 | Message in a Bottleneck✨ | online speechcontent moderation+4 | Jennifer Granick | KickstarterEngadget+4 | — | content moderationKickstarter+4 | — | 54m 20s | |
| 5/7/26 | The Human Element in the Room✨ | online speechcontent moderation+4 | Ari Cohn | Pennsylvania Capital-StarEuronews+1 | — | AI chatbotcontent moderation+4 | — | 51m 24s | |
| 4/30/26 | Age Against the Machine✨ | online speechcontent moderation+4 | Jess Miers | University of Akron School of LawOpenAI+2 | — | AI chatbotscontent moderation+4 | — | 52m 31s | |
| 4/23/26 | Celebrating 100 Episodes & Launching Our Patreon✨ | podcast milestonesPatreon launch+3 | — | — | — | Ctrl-Alt-SpeechPatreon+3 | — | 29m 56s | |
| 4/16/26 | The Silence of the LLMs✨ | online speechcontent moderation+3 | — | BBCPolitico+5 | — | AIAnthropic+4 | — | 52m 27s | |
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| 4/9/26 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Internet✨ | online speechcontent moderation+3 | Fadzai Madzingira | MetaSalesforce+4 | — | online speechcontent moderation+3 | — | 51m 12s | |
| 4/2/26 | Age Old Questions✨ | online speechcontent moderation+4 | — | AustraliaCrikey+3 | — | Australiasocial media ban+5 | — | 50m 31s | |
| 3/26/26 | For Meta or Worse✨ | content moderationinternet regulation+3 | — | MetaTechdirt+1 | London | Metacontent moderation+6 | — | 53m 09s | |
| 3/19/26 | Money for Nothing and Clicks for a Fee✨ | online speechcontent moderation+4 | — | PolymarketTimes of Israel+7 | — | Polymarketcontent moderation+4 | — | 52m 08s | |
| 3/12/26 | Writing Some Wrongs✨ | online speechcontent moderation+4 | — | GrammarlyPlatformer+3 | — | GrammarlyAI editor+4 | — | 52m 29s | |
| 3/5/26 | The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour✨ | content moderationmedia evolution+3 | — | Trust & Safety industryTrust, Safety, and the Internet We Share Multistakeholder Insights | — | content moderationTrust & Safety+3 | — | 52m 59s | |
| 2/26/26 | Let Fly the Claudes of War, with Casey Newton✨ | online speechcontent moderation+3 | Casey Newton | PlatformerHard Fork+4 | — | AIPentagon+4 | — | 47m 09s | |
| 2/12/26 | Panic! At The Discord✨ | online speechcontent moderation+4 | Dr Blake Hallinan | Aarhus UniversityTechdirt+1 | Washington | Section 230content moderation+4 | — | 47m 42s | |
| 2/10/26 |  FAFO: Claude Goes High Brow With Its Super Bowl Ad & "Constitution"; OpenAI Scrambles | In this special bonus for Ctrl-Alt-Speech listeners, we're cross-posting an episode from the Future Around And Find Out podcast hosted by Dan Blumberg with guest Kwaku Aning. This week Dan and Kwaku dig into: The uncanny valley that is AI agents and Moltbook—the "Reddit" that agents built for themselves to complain about humans, create a religion, and behave in ways that freak humans out Anthropic takes aim at OpenAI with a Super Bowl ad that's spicy (for cubs and cougars alik... | 53m 20s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | C'est la Vile Content | In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: House Judiciary Releases EU X Fine Details (House Judiciary X Account)New Report Exposes European Commission Decade-Long Campaign to Censor American Speech (House Judiciary Committee)X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (BBC)Hey Gavin Newsom! Investigating TikTok’s Moderation Is Just As Unconstitutional As When Texas & Florida Tried I... | 51m 25s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | Think Globally, Stack Locally | In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by Konstantinos Komaitis, Senior Resident Fellow for Global and Democratic Governance at the Digital Forensics Research Lab (DFRLab) at the Atlantic Council. Together, they discuss: Who Owns TikTok in the U.S. Now? (NY Times)TikTok is investigating why some users can't write 'Epstein' in messages (NPR)TikTok users freak out over app’s ‘immigration status’ collection — here’s ... | 55m 36s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | This Episode is Broadly Safe to Listen To | In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: My year with a flip phone (Financial Times)Claude’s Constitution (Anthropic)From the CEO: What’s coming to YouTube in 2026 (Youtube)BBC to show programmes on YouTube in landmark deal (Financial Times)Rand Paul: I’ve changed my mind — Google and YouTube can’t be trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in (NY Post)Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of ... | 46m 30s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | We’ve Hit Grok Bottom | In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: UK, Canadian watchdogs press on with probes into Elon Musk's Grok chatbot (Reuters)Musk’s xAI limits Grok’s ability to create sexualized images of real people on X after backlash (CNBC)X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t (The Verge)State Department Threatens UK Over Grok Investigation, Because Only The US Is Allowed To Ban Foreig... | 51m 02s | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution | In this sponsored Spotlight episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, host Ben Whitelaw talks to Oversight Board co-chair Paolo Carozza (Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana) and Board member Julie Owono (Executive Director of Internet Without Borders and research affiliate at Berkman Klein Centre) about the Board’s five-year journey and its plans for the future. Together, Ben, Paolo and Julie discuss the Board’s recently published report, From Bold Experiment ... | 35m 31s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | Making Our 2026 Bingo Card | In the first Ctrl-Alt-Speech episode of 2026, Mike and Ben look forward at the year ahead and begin building a bingo card of things that might happen. They discuss a short list of possible squares, ask for listeners to contribute more ideas, and go few a through suggestions that have already come in. Soon, we’ll release an official Ctrl-Alt-Speech bingo card for listeners to play along throughout the year. Follow Ben at Everything in Moderation and Mike at Techdirt. Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the pod... | 44m 33s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
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2 placements across 2 markets.