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The Human Element in the Room
May 7, 2026
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Apr 30, 2026
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Celebrating 100 Episodes & Launching Our Patreon
Apr 23, 2026
29m 56s
The Silence of the LLMs
Apr 16, 2026
52m 27s
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Internet
Apr 9, 2026
51m 12s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
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| 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 a... | 44m 33s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | Have Yourself a Very Meta Christmas | In the last Ctrl-Alt-Speech of the year, Mike and Ben round up the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation with the following stories: Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content | Global development (The Guardian)Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages (Techcrunch)Meta adopts new age-check system to meet global child safety laws (FT)Russian ban on Roblox gaming platform sparks rare protest (... | 53m 46s | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | Censors & Sensibility | In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Resonant Computing Manifesto Support Techdirt’s Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin (Techdirt)US Ambassador Slams EU Tech Rules as Musk’s X Hit With Fine (Bloomberg)Why the X fine is causing so much transatlantic drama (Politico)Tech workers face new H1-B scrutiny as Trump targets ‘censorship’ (Washington Post)H1-B visa advice (LinkedIn - Alic... | 1h 03m 52s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 | Stuck in the Middleware with Youth | In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Vaishnavi J, former head of youth policy at Meta and founder and principal of Vyanams Strategies, a product advisory firm that helps companies, civil society, and governments build safer age appropriate experiences. Prior to founding Vys, she led video policy at Twitter, built its safety team in APAC and was Google's child safety polciy lead in APAC. Together Ben and Vaishn... | 46m 23s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 | Spotlight: Building Better CSAM Detection with Resolver’s George Vlasto | In this sponsored Spotlight episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, host Ben Whitelaw speaks with George Vlasto, head of the Trust & Safety division at Resolver, as the organisation marks its 20th anniversary. Their conversation looks back at two decades of Resolver’s work supporting platforms and safeguarding online communities, and explores how that legacy has shaped its newest innovations. Ben and George dig into Resolver’s unique approach to scaling the detection of Child Sexual Abuse Material (C... | 34m 08s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | You Can't Antitrust Anyone These Days | In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Meta wins FTC antitrust trial over Instagram, WhatsApp deals (CNBC)Commission eyes further simplification of tech rules after DSA review (Euractiv)Inside Europe's 'Jekyll and Hyde' tech strategy (Digital Policy)NetChoice sues Virginia to block its one-hour social media limit for kids (The Verge)Tech Giants Sue California Over Social Media Access Law (2) (Bloomberg Law)T... | 53m 01s | ||||||
| 11/13/25 | Deviation from the Teen | In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Kenji Yoshino, who has the excellent title of Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and the Director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. Kenji is also a member of the Oversight Board. Together Ben and Kenji discuss: ‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the minds of 16-year-olds (The Observer)Introdu... | 56m 40s | ||||||
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