In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:

• The Official Sonic Discord Server’s Launch Went About As Poorly As You’d Expect (Kotaku)
• Vladimir Putin's Forkiverse (Search Engine)
• They trade child sex abuse material. They find each other on TikTok (Prospect)
• Meta rolls out new AI tools to detect ads that secretly lead to child sexual abuse material (TechCrunch)
• TikTok gave teens, children placebo safety feature in experiment, New York alleges (Reuters)
• DNS Resolver Quad9 Rejects French Piracy Blocks, Weighs Exit as beIN Seeks Up to €580K a Day (TorrentFreak)

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

• EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request (The Guardian)
• EEAS runs scared of US 'disinformation' debate (Rapporteur)
• Canada drops sponsorship of conference that cites U.S. as foreign-interference actor (The Globe and Mail)

Our fun links this week include the Job Trail game and Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft City.

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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).