I’ve always been fascinated by etymology, linguistics, and language in general. And I’m obviously fascinated by how social media is changing society. So the new book Algospeak by Adam Aleksic is directly up my alley, and I got to sit down with Adam to chat about his book for this episode of the Infinite Scroll podcast.

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In this episode we talk about how social media algorithms change the way we speak - not just the words like unalive, but the phrases we use, our speech rhythms and ultimately the whole way we communicate and build communities. This was also released as an episode of the New Liberal Podcast, so if you want even more political podcast takes, make sure to subscribe there!

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