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Barnaby Joyce isn't Jesus Christ + Opting out of the manosphere
25 minutes Posted Sep 7, 2026 at 8:15 pm.
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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. 

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