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MC Weekly Update 6/27: Cage-free Eggheads (Are Men Okay?)

MC Weekly Update 6/27: Cage-free Eggheads (Are Men Okay?)

FromModerated Content


MC Weekly Update 6/27: Cage-free Eggheads (Are Men Okay?)

FromModerated Content

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Jun 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:A new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory and Thorn, a nonprofit working to counter online child sexual exploitation, examines the problem of increasingly realistic images generated with freely available tools to create sexual abuse material. - Issie Lapowsky/ The New York Times, @det@hachyderm.ioThe mutiny in Russia unfolded in real time on Telegram with unreliable information spreading as few other sources of news or information were available from the country. - Jon Allsop/ Columbia Journalism Review, Matt Binder/ Mashable, Ben Smith/ Semafor, Joseph Menn, Mary Ilyushina, Shera Avi-Yonah/ The Washington PostTwitter CornerElon Musk has clearly been focused on top priorities with a late night tweet declaring the terms “cis” and “cisgender” are  “slurs” that can result in suspensions. - Sawdah Bhaimiya/ Insider, Sarah Fortinsky/ The HillMeanwhile, Musk met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said Tesla will be in India “as soon as humanly possible.” - Hyunjoo Jin, Shivangi Acharya/ ReutersIn the ongoing back and forth between Twitter and the EU, the company said it would comply with the Digital Service Act which goes into force in late August. Twitter was the first company to do a voluntary compliance “stress test” (whatever that means) at its San Francisco headquarters during EU industry chief Thierry Breton’s Silicon Valley tour last week. - Kelvin Chan/ Associated Press, Brian Fung/ CNN, Clothilde Goujard, Gian Volpicelli/ Politico, Lisa O'Carroll/ The Guardian, Alexa Corse, Sam Schechner/ The Wall Street Journal, Cat Zakrzewski/ The Washington PostAustralia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, issued a legal notice requiring Twitter to provide information about what it is doing to address reports of an increase in hate speech since Elon Musk acquired the company and laid off most staff. - Josh Taylor/ Australian Associated Press, Ina Fried/ Axios, Byron Kaye/ Reuters, Frances Vinall/ The Washington Post, Julie Inman Grant/ Tech Policy PressYouTube showed up Spotify by removing a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for spreading vaccine misinformation in conversation with podcast host Jordan Peterson. - David Ingram, Ben Goggin/ NBC NewsIt turns out that big social media companies may have the upper hand over users as Reddit removed moderators on popular subreddits who didn’t comply with a warning about continuing protests over the company’s decision to charge for API access. - Matt Binder/ Mashable, Jay Peters/ The VergeAfter giving Vietnamese a platform to share posts about police abuse, government corruption, and debunk government propaganda, Facebook is now complying with the authoritarian country’s demands to censor political dissent with an internal list of ruling party officials who cannot be criticized. - Rebecca Tan/ The Washington PostLegal CornerThe Supreme Court issued its decision in Counterman without acknowledging the very real harm that can be done by online stalkers, even when they don't explicitly threaten their victims. - Jan Wolfe, Jess Bravin/ The Wall Street Journal, @ma_franksThe majority opinion held that prosecutors must show that a person was reckless when they sent threatening messages, and not merely that the messages were objectively threateningJustice Sotomayor's concurrence got it right in saying that this was a case about stalking, not threats, but we'll have to wait and see whether lower courts pay attention, or whether they assume that the majority opinion means online stalking is protected by the First Amendment, as long as the stalker doesn't say anything threatening.Join the conversation and connect with Evelyn and Alex on Twitter at @evelyndouek and @alexstamos.Moderated Content is produced in partnership by Stanford Law School and the Cyber Policy Center. Special thanks to John Perrino for research and editorial assistance.Like what you heard? Don’t forget to subscr
Released:
Jun 27, 2023
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Moderated Content from Stanford Law School is podcast content about content moderation, moderated by assistant professor Evelyn Douek. The community standards of this podcast prohibit anything except the wonkiest conversations about the regulation—both public and private—of what you see, hear and do online.