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"Most Americans think censorship is about banning books, deleting tweets, or deplatforming dissidents. And depending on where and who you are, this can indeed be a primary form of censorship. But in 2025 in America, the most widespread and insidious forms of censorship aren’t about takedowns or suppression of speech— rather, they’re about tuning the algorithm. Quietly, subtly, and almost always with plausible deniability, the Trump administration appears to be executing a playbook of what can best be described as reverse algorithmic capture: a process through which government pressure reshapes the architecture of digital platforms, not by direct control, but by engineering incentives that guide algorithms to amplify preferred narratives and suppress dissent. Put differently, it’s the state using soft power to realign platforms’ invisible gates toward ideological conformity—but never giving up that element of distance and plausible deniability."

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/revealed-how-the-trump-admin-is-covertly

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02.08.2025 13:36
lesandrop (@lesandrop@mastodon.social)

How Citizens Engage with Climate Authorities on Social Media

https://lesandrop.github.io/site/papers/how-citizens-engage-with-the-social-media-presence-of-climate-authorities.html

#climateaction #climatechange #science #socialmedia

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02.08.2025 12:46
ambientdread (@ambientdread@toot.io)

Grim Dread

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https://ambientdread.net/2025/08/02/aug-1-2025/

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02.08.2025 12:20
2025 (@2025@rbfirehose.com)

BBC: Some Gaza and Ukraine posts blocked under new age checks. “The new legislation, which came into effect last Friday, imposes fines on social media companies and other websites which fail to protect under-18s from pornography, posts promoting self-harm, and other harmful content. In serious cases, services could be blocked in the UK. But BBC Verify found a range of public interest content, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/02/bbc-some-gaza-and-ukraine-posts-blocked-under-new-age-checks/

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02.08.2025 09:33
malinawaz1212 (@malinawaz1212@mastodon.social)

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