In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• My year with a flip phone (Financial Times)
• Claude’s Constitution (Anthropic)
• From the CEO: What’s coming to YouTube in 2026 (Youtube)
• BBC to show programmes on YouTube in landmark deal (Financial Times)
• Rand Paul: I’ve changed my mind — Google and YouTube can’t be trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in (NY Post)
• Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him (Techdirt)
• Roskomnadzor Denies Reports That It’s Throttling Telegram Over Content Moderation Disputes (Moscow Times)
• Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W (Cybernews)

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