Australia Proposes User Choice on Social Media Algorithms

Australia's Labor government plans legislation creating a digital duty of care requiring platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok to let users switch off algorithmic feeds, with substantial penalties for non-compliance. The Coalition opposes the plan, calling it an attempt to

🐿️ Users would finally get a default chronological feed option, but the real test is whether platforms make disabling algorithms as easy as enabling them.