TikTok, Censorship, & Algospeak : It's Been a Minute

TikTok, Censorship, & Algospeak : It's Been a Minute

There's his trend on social media of using code words for different topics so you can trick the algorithm from categorizing your content in a certain way. What do you think? Is this a form of censorship? Or...are algorithm categorizations a way of protecting users from seeing too much violent or aggressive content? Well, whatever side of the debate you fall on, Code Switch's B.A. Parker and Gene Demby are going to show you how this so-called ALG…

Algorithmic censorship changes the way we talk

Teenagers are coming up with words like "unalive" to beat social media censorship. Is it an example of human ingenuity—or a sad sign of our censored times?

Algorithmic Censorship Changes the Way We Talk

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language, by Adam Aleksic, Knopf, 256 pages, $29 The kids these days have a lot of silly euphemisms. Porn becomes corn. Sex becomes seggs. Nipples are nip nops and a picture of an eggplant can stand in for a penis. Killing someone becomes…