National Cabinet has pledged to accelerate efforts to end gender-based violence against women: There's a new “Risk Assessment Framework” to help support victims, and a list of priorities to be included in the new Action Plan currently being negotiated.
But the reality is sexual violence amongst teens continues to rise. Author and founder of Teach Us Consent, Chanel Contos says part of the problem is the social media algorithms flooding young men's feeds with misogynistic content.
She's calling on the government to step in and legislate to "fix our feeds".
0:45 Introduction
2:45 Welcome Chanel Contos
4:00 Scale of the teen on teen sexual violence
6:00 Role of social media algorithm
10:15 "Fix Our Feeds"
11:45 Digital Duty of Care legislation
12:31 Opt-In v Opt-out
15:32 Is there evidence this would make a difference?
19:30 Link between Misogyny and extremism
22:15 Is this problem getting any better - or is it getting worse?
23:32 Thank you and goodbye
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