Mental health organisations collaborate to call for changes to social media platforms
Mental health organisations ReachOut, Beyond Blue and Black Dog Institute are calling for a range of evidence-based measures to help improve the safety of social media platforms for young people, including verification of mental health information and limiting infinite scroll features.
In a submission to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society, the three organisations set out a range of recommendations including: co-designed policy measures, policies that compel social media platforms to work according to safety-by-design principles, transparency and user- control when it comes to algorithms, verification of health content on platforms and funding for more research into the links between social media and mental health.
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