INTERVIEW: Chanel Contos has a plan to fix your feed
If you could quit your own algorithm and start again, would you be happier? And if everyone could do it: would it make the world a better place? Chanel Contos thinks so, and she wants Australia to do something nobody else has tried yet: make algorithms opt-in. A petition she's set up already has the names of some of Australia's most powerful people on it. So can we fix our feeds? And what would an internet that's no longer governed by algorithms even look like? In this week's interview pod, Chanel chats to Dave about the fight for our feeds. She gets into how algorithms fuel sexual violence, why we've all become so addicted to them, and what freedom from their content could mean. Guests: Chanel Contos, founder and CEO, Teach Us Consent Get the whole story from hack: Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Subscribe to the hack podcast Listen on the triple j app or on your radio live every weeknight at 5:30pm
An episode of the Hack podcast, hosted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, titled "INTERVIEW: Chanel Contos has a plan to fix your feed" was published on December 3, 2025 and runs 19 minutes.
December 3, 2025 ·19m · Hack
Summary
If you could quit your own algorithm and start again, would you be happier? And if everyone could do it: would it make the world a better place? Chanel Contos thinks so, and she wants Australia to do something nobody else has tried yet: make algorithms opt-in. A petition she's set up already has the names of some of Australia's most powerful people on it. So can we fix our feeds? And what would an internet that's no longer governed by algorithms even look like? In this week's interview pod, Chanel chats to Dave about the fight for our feeds. She gets into how algorithms fuel sexual violence, why we've all become so addicted to them, and what freedom from their content could mean. Guests: Chanel Contos, founder and CEO, Teach Us Consent Get the whole story from hack: Follow us on Instagram and TikTok Subscribe to the hack podcast Listen on the triple j app or on your radio live every weeknight at 5:30pm
Episode Description
If you could quit your own algorithm and start again, would you be happier?
And if everyone could do it: would it make the world a better place?
Chanel Contos thinks so, and she wants Australia to do something nobody else has tried yet: make algorithms opt-in.
A petition she's set up already has the names of some of Australia's most powerful people on it.
So can we fix our feeds?
And what would an internet that's no longer governed by algorithms even look like?
In this week's interview pod, Chanel chats to Dave about the fight for our feeds.
She gets into how algorithms fuel sexual violence, why we've all become so addicted to them, and what freedom from their content could mean.
Guests:
- Chanel Contos, founder and CEO, Teach Us Consent
Get the whole story from hack:
- Follow us on Instagram and TikTok
- Subscribe to the hack podcast
- Listen on the triple j app or on your radio live every weeknight at 5:30pm
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