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INTERVIEW: Chanel Contos has a plan to fix your feed
Hack
19 minutes
1 month ago
INTERVIEW: Chanel Contos has a plan to fix your feed
If you could quit your own algorithm and start again, would you be happier?
And if everyone could do it: would it make the world a better place?
Chanel Contos thinks so, and she wants Australia to do something nobody else has tried yet: make algorithms opt-in.
A petition she's set up already has the names of some of Australia's most powerful people on it.
So can we fix our feeds?
And what would an internet that's no longer governed by algorithms even look like?
In this week's interview pod, Chanel chats to Dave about the fight for our feeds.
She gets into how algorithms fuel sexual violence, why we've all become so addicted to them, and what freedom from their content could mean.
Guests:
Chanel Contos, founder and CEO, Teach Us Consent
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Hack brings you the stories that matter to young people. Every weekday host Dave Marchese and the triple j Hack team cover the latest news, politics and culture from all around Australia.