Friday, August 15, 2025

Trump's D.C. takeover met with "music festivals": new protest code word

"People have to reroute their speech around what they think is algorithmically friendly or algorithmically safe," he said, adding users are "performing for the algorithmic idea of what will work, both in terms of what will go viral and in terms of what can even be published on the platform." 

And talk of music festivals, he said, is a clear example of tongue-in-cheek "algospeak" that appeals to a sense of subversion — and establishes an "in-group of people" who understand the phrase.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/dc-protests-festivals-tiktok-code-word


 

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