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Mar 19, 2026
52:08
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story (Times of Israel)
- Maybe Turning War Into a Casino Was a Bad Idea? (The Atlantic)
- French music streamer Deezer battles deluge of AI fraud (Financial Times)
- I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes (BBC)
- US to Receive $10 Billion Fee for TikTok Deal, WSJ Reports (Bloomberg)
- 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back (404 Media)
- ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ (The Guardian)
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