Taylor Lorenz on Taking Internet Culture Seriously
The Lawfare Podcast
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How Does Algo Speak Influence Social Media?
Algo speak means the different words and language we use to essentially evade content moderation filters. You can't say the word dead in a lot of you two prertic to content without suffering some sort of algredmic hit, like, your content won't go as far because it doesn't seem family friendly or benign. So people will say un alive instead of kill, like, he unalived himself, or the person became un alive. We saw a lot of this happen around the apocalypse am, which is something that happened on 20 17,. when a lot of big advertisers pulled their ads over concerns of unsafe content.
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