Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Internet

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Fadzai Madzingira, a digital policy expert with a decade of experience at Meta, Salesforce, Ofcom and currently Twitch, where she leads the policy, outreach and education teams. Together, they discuss: Exclusive: Meta has discussed ending funding to the Oversight Board (Platformer) Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution (Ctrl-Alt-Speech) What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots (The New York Times) Early Lessons from Australia's Teen Social Media Ban for the Rest of the World (Tech Policy Press) Stuck in the Middleware with Youth with Vaishnavi J (Ctrl-Alt-Speech) Greece to ban social media for under-15s from 2027, calls on EU action (Reuters) The Family Tech Cycle: Navigating Screens, Devices, and Social Media (Joan Ganz Cooney Center) We’re still yet to find a Ctrl-Alt-Speech 2026 Bingo Card winner — could this week be your lucky day? Play along. 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).