The fight to switch off your algorithm - podcast

Chantel Contos talks about her campaign against social media algorithms and how it has helped shape a groundbreaking bill in her native Australia to increase regulation of big tech


Chanel Contos is in her mid-20s and has already changed Australia once.


As she tells Annie Kelly, after she founded Teach Us Consent at university, the advocacy group successfully campaigned to change Australian’s national curriculum to mandate the teaching of sexual consent in schools.

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