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Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover. 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. If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon. Follow us on Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky. 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).