Articulating algorithmic ableism: the suppression and surveillance of disabled TikTok creators.
Shortly after its 2018 global launch, reports surfaced that content creation platform TikTok tasked its moderators to suppress disabled creators' user-generated content without formal notification to the users, a belief colloquially known as shadowbanning. This theoretical article introduces algorit...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 34; no. 8; pp. 1138 - 1150 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2025
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