Australian social media users to be offered choice to opt out of algorithms
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THE AI ANGLE
Curating default social media feedsThe Australian government announced that social media platforms will be required to notify both new and existing users with an option to opt out of algorithmic default feeds. For scholars in public policy, law, and communications, this measure represents a significant regulatory intervention into platform governance and user feed curation.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
This policy provides an entry point to analyze the legal and communicative tensions surrounding government-mandated user choice versus platform-driven algorithmic curation.Read the original at npr.org Generate teaching or study materials
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