No Good Feed Goes Unpunished

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In this week’s episode, Mike is joined by Mike McCue, founder and CEO of Flipboard, and a long term Silicon Valley exec and entrepreneur. Together, they discuss:

• Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots (TechCrunch)
• Publishers call on Andy Burnham to crack down on AI stealth bots (The Times)
• Drone Strikes Didn’t Take Out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It (Mother Jones)
• TikTok Quietly Gutted Its Advertising Rules. Scams Have Exploded Ever Since (Forbes)
• Trump Vowed to Wall Off TikTok From China. Did He? (Politico)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• Florida wins key ruling allowing it to enforce a law that targets social media use by kids (AP)
• Eleventh Circuit Says Cliffhangers Are ‘Features,’ Not Speech, As It Greenlights Florida’s Social Media Age Gate (Techdirt)

Our fun links this week include Steve Job’s prescient 1983 speech and TinyLittleOffice which is an office suite where documents are stored in the URL themselves.

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).