Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms

The proposed legislation would also protect children from content that promotes eating disorders, hostile ideas about women, pornography, crime, dangerous stunts and that causes serious mental health distress.

Critics of Australia’s digital duty of care bill stand in defence of the right of platforms to promote harm over health, rage over reason, fake over fact The algorithms have been kind to Pauline Hanson, which must be why she was so quick to jump to their defence when the…

The federal government has released an exposure draft of its long-promised digital duty of care. The headline feature is an “off switch”. Social media platforms would have to ask users, through prompts that appear from time to time, whether they want to keep a personalised,…

Australia on Tuesday proposed new legislation that would allow social media users to opt out of platform algorithms and control their feeds. The Digital Duty of Care bill will require digital services to protect under-18s from harmful content and addictive design features.

Draft legislation enforces digital duty of care including limiting children’s exposure to misogynistic and eating disorder content Australia will allow social media account holders to opt out of the powerful algorithms pushing dangerous and divisive content into users’ feeds,…