Money for Nothing and Clicks for a Fee

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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