Chanel Contos on the fight to turn off your algorithms

I've been talking now for about 23 minutes.

That's how long it takes for extreme misogynistic content to appear on a boy or man's screen after they've signed up to social media platform.

The boy doesn't even need to tell the server that he's a male.

They'll know within seconds, depending on his habits and the first few pieces of content they show.

Speaking at the Press Club this week, consent education advocate Chanel Contos outlined how social media companies are feeding misogynistic content to young men online.

It may be a pickup artist course, unregulated steroids or peptides, or access to an exclusive club.

Quote unquote, evidence-based misogyny underpins the various streams of misogyny with pseudoscientific evidence, biological claims, decontextualized statistics, and misinterpretations of psychology used to scientifically prove women's inherent inferiority and men's victimization.

Now she wants the government to compel these companies to give people the option to restrict their algorithm.

We're not asking them to stop.

We're demanding that they're obliged to clearly ask us first, and then for us to be able to turn our algorithms on and off at will for any reason at any time, with the ability for different preferences on different platforms.

This, for the first time, would introduce informed and affirmative consent to our screens.

So can and should the algorithm be contained? And would social media companies even comply? [gentle music] I'm Ruby Jones, and you're listening to 7AM.

Today, CEO of Teach Us Consent, Chanel Contos, on the damage the algorithm is doing and the next tech frontier.

It's Friday, September 4.

I've been talking now for about 23 minutes.

That's how long it takes for extreme misogynistic content to appear on a boy or man's screen after they've signed up to social media platform.

The boy doesn't even need to tell the server that he's a male.

They'll know within seconds, depending on his habits and the first few pieces of content they show.

Speaking at the Press Club this week, consent education advocate Chanel Contos outlined how social media companies are feeding misogynistic content to young men online.

It may be a pickup artist course, unregulated steroids or peptides, or access to an exclusive club.

Quote unquote, evidence-based misogyny underpins the various streams of misogyny with pseudoscientific evidence, biological claims, decontextualized statistics, and misinterpretations of psychology used to scientifically prove women's inherent inferiority and men's victimization.

Now she wants the government to compel these companies to give people the option to restrict their algorithm.

We're not asking them to stop.

We're demanding that they're obliged to clearly ask us first, and then for us to be able to turn our algorithms on and off at will for any reason at any time, with the ability for different preferences on different platforms.

This, for the first time, would introduce informed and affirmative consent to our screens.

So can and should the algorithm be contained? And would social media companies even comply? [gentle music] I'm Ruby Jones, and you're listening to 7AM.

Today, CEO of Teach Us Consent, Chanel Contos, on the damage the algorithm is doing and the next tech frontier.

It's Friday, September 4.