In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Zeve Sanderson, the founding Executive Director of the NYU Center for Social Media & Politics. Together, they cover:

• If algorithms radicalize a mass shooter, are companies to blame? (The Verge)
• Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders (Arxiv)
• A dangerous plan to ‘win’ the AI race is circulating (Washington Post)
• Texas governor signs law to enforce age verification on Apple, Google app stores (Reuters)
• AB 853: California AI Transparency Act.(CalMatters)
• Regulators Are Investigating Whether Media Matters Colluded With Advertisers (NY Times)
• Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline (TechCrunch)
• Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’ (Wired)

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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Hank Green, popular YouTube creator and educator. After spending some time talking about being a creator at the whims of platforms, they cover:

• Crash Course Coin (Complexly)
• Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (NY Mag)
• The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It (NY Times)
• How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future (NY Times)
• We Shouldn’t Have To Explain To The FTC Why Content Moderation Is So Crucial To Free Speech, But We Did (Techdirt)

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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Cathy Gellis, an internet and First Amendment lawyer. Together, they cover:

• The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment (Techdirt)
• Trump fires Copyright Office director after report raises questions about AI training (TechCrunch)
• Elon Musk’s X caves to ‘censorship’ demand from India as tensions build with Pakistan (AFP)
• In the government’s war on ‘disinformation’, facts are collateral damage (The Hindu)
• Elon Musk's Twitter: Indian government has asked us to block 8,000 accounts, however, we disagree as (Times of India)
• Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’ (Wired)
• White Afrikaner brought to US by Trump administration has history of antisemitic posts (The Guardian)
• U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism (NPR)
• Kanye’s Nazi Song Is All Over Instagram (404 Media)
• Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts (NY Times)
• Wikipedia fights the UK’s ‘flawed’ and ‘burdensome’ online safety rules (The Verge)
• What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression (Tech Policy Press)
• Missouri AG Thinks Supreme Court Ruling Lets Him Control Social Media Moderation (It Doesn’t) (Techdirt)

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