About this episode

The episode discusses current headlines and explores the impact of social media algorithms on mental health, particularly focusing on the manosphere and proposed changes to user experience.

Tuesday Headlines:  One Nation has been forced into a quick defence of its plan for superannuation Australian bureaucrats want to ban videos from parliamentary hearings being shared on social media  Trial of alleged killers of Australian brothers in Mexico gets underway Food prices could be pushed higher by record strength El Niño King Charles issues clarification on Harry and Meghan Deep Dive: For years, a secret formula has dictated everything we see on social media, hooking our attention spans at the expense of our mental health.  Now, the federal government is unveiling a plan to let users opt out of the algorithm entirely and return to a chronological stream of accounts they actually follow. But with increasing pressure to protect young men from the insidious manosphere, how much will an opt-out actually change?  In this episode of The Briefing, reporter Amber Schultz joins Sacha Barbour Gatt to detail her experiment posing as a 17-year-old boy online, where it took just 13 minutes to land on manosphere content, and what these proposed changes will mean for our feeds.  Follow The Briefing:   TikTok:&nbsp…

People in this episode

Host: Sacha Barbour Gatt

Guest: Amber Schultz

Topics covered

• superannuation
• social media algorithms
• mental health
• manosphere
• youth protection
• current events

Keywords

• superannuation
• social media
• mental health
• manosphere
• El Niño
• current events
• youth protection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: One Nation

Places: Australia, Mexico

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