How platforms reacted to Trump shooting, Spotify's creator mod push and Mekić vs Musk

Hello and welcome to Everything in Moderation's Week in Review, your in-depth guide to the policies, products, platforms and people shaping the future of online speech and the internet. It's written by me, Ben Whitelaw and supported by members like you.

I’m excited to have published Alice Hunsberger’s Ultimate Guide to T&S Networking ahead of next week’s TrustCon, the global conference of trust and safety professionals run by the Trust and Safety Professional Association. Large professionals gatherings didn’t always used to be my bag, and I know others struggle too, so it’s great to bring Alice’s experience together in one place.

Next Friday’s Week in Review will have all the news and announcements from San Francisco so keep an eye out for that.

Here's everything in moderation from the last seven days — BW

Today’s edition is in partnership with Thorn, a nonprofit that provides Trust & Safety teams with solutions to detect online sexual harms against children.

Introducing Safer Predict, a significant expansion of our predictive AI detection capabilities. Safer Predict adds text detection to our existing image and video CSAM classification capabilities. Safer’s text classifier identifies text-based harms, including discussions of sextortion, self-generated CSAM, and potential offline exploitation.

Policies

New and emerging internet policy and online speech regulation

As is so often the case, last week’s big story broke right after I hit send on the newsletter. But, by now, I expect you've heard about the EU’s preliminary findings against X/Twitter for breaching the Digital Services Act.

Trustpilot’s Domonique Rai-Varming — standing in for the holidaying Mike Masnick — and I discussed the news in the most recent episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech and we’ve seen an inevitable dynamic play out a since then:

• X owner Elon Musk outlandishly claimed that there was an “illegal secret deal” to censor speech, which the EU denies.
• Musk then goaded EU internal commissioner Thierry Breton that “We look forward to a very public battle in court".

After the recent showdown with the eSafety Commssioner in Australia, this looks like X vs the regulators round two.

It wasn’t just that ruling either that went against the platform this week. See the People section of today’s EiM for more....