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Fast Facts: Can You Decode Algospeak?

By Christian Loria, CPP, and SM Staff
18 August 2025

Focus on Threat Assessment

Can you decode concealed messages in social media posts using algospeak?

This coded language uses emojis, inside jokes, and contradictory phrases to hide a post’s meaning from platforms’ content moderation algorithms. Algospeak can also make threat assessment work more difficult.

Test your algospeak interpretation skills in the video below. 

 

 

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