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75: Fake News (with Jack Grieve)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Algorithms: A Form of Borders

In Algo speak, you construct some kind of slang because you don't want something to get flagged automatically. This is like in TikTok, you say, unalive instead of kill. Or you might say grape instead of rape. So many different facets of our world are sort of like built around the concept of algorithms that this could actually refer to a bunch of different stuff.

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