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The fight to switch off your algorithm – podcast

Digital media | The Guardian · Presented by Annie Kelly with Chanel Contos; produced by Eleanor Biggs and Brian McNamara; executive producers Sami Kent and Homa Khaleeli · last updated

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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