{"id":30894,"date":"2026-05-12T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:31:52","slug":"what-the-us-tiktok-takeover-is-already-revealing-about-new-forms-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/type-article\/what-the-us-tiktok-takeover-is-already-revealing-about-new-forms-of-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"O que a aquisi\u00e7\u00e3o do TikTok nos EUA j\u00e1 est\u00e1 revelando sobre novas formas de censura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-date__modified-date wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-05-12T19:31:52+00:00\">12 de maio de 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not what we can or cannot say that matters \u2013 rather, it\u2019s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/05\/Poalo.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Cover art\" class=\"wp-image-30921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/05\/Poalo.jpg.webp 517w, https:\/\/alameda.institute\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/05\/Poalo-237x300.jpg.webp 237w, https:\/\/alameda.institute\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2026\/05\/Poalo-9x12.jpg.webp 9w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We tend to think of censorship as the direct suppression of speech. We conjure images of mouths taped shut, courts seizing books and films, and journalists or activists thrown in jail to silence their voices. But what if, in a digital era governed by invisible yet highly consequential algorithms, censorship no longer revolved around the ability to speak, but rather around the visibility of content, its effective \u201creach\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch of TikTok\u2019s new US-specific algorithm underscores the urgency of this risk. This week, control over the platform\u2019s operations has shifted to the TikTok USDS joint venture led by a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/22\/tiktok-us-venture-oracle\">consortium of investors&nbsp;<\/a>that includes US big tech firms such as cloud-computing company Oracle, with the Chinese parent company ByteDance retaining a 19.9% stake. This arrangement is presented as a means of complying with US legislation introduced under former president Joe Biden, with the aim of protecting user data and preventing political interference from China. Yet many of TikTok\u2019s 200 million US-based users now fear that Donald Trump and his allies may use algorithmic control to do precisely what China was accused of doing: interfering with political discussion by suppressing critical voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more of the article &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jan\/30\/tiktok-us-takeover-new-type-of-censorship\">What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship&#8217;<\/a>, please visit the Guardian website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not what we can or cannot say that matters \u2013 rather, it\u2019s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm We tend to think of censorship as the direct suppression of speech. We conjure images of mouths taped shut, courts seizing books and films, and journalists or activists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":30926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"author-name":"Paolo Gerbaudo","choose-language":"EN","wds_primary_category":36,"wds_primary_alameda-themes":0,"wds_primary_projects":0,"wds_primary_dynamic-publications-cat":0,"wds_primary_type-tax":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[83,197],"alameda-themes":[168],"projects":[104],"dynamic-publications-cat":[],"type-tax":[],"class_list":["post-30894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-type-article","tag-after-order","tag-paolo-gerbaudo","alameda-themes-sovereignty-order-and-justice","projects-after-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30980,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions\/30980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"alameda-themes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alameda-themes?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"dynamic-publications-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dynamic-publications-cat?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"type-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-tax?post=30894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}