Digital Duty of Care Survey

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1. How much time do you spend on social media each day (on average)?

2. Overall, how do you feel about the impact of social media on your life?

3. Overall, how do you feel about the impact of social media on the people you care about (family and friends)?

4. What do you like most about being online / using social media?

5. What do you like least, or find most frustrating, about being online / using social media?

6. Which of the following have you personally experienced online?

If anything here is difficult, you can skip this question. Support services are listed at the end of this survey.

7. If you are comfortable sharing more, you can do so here

8. Which of these do you think is most important for the Government to address?

Pick your top 3.

9. Please say

10. If you had to choose, which of these two options do you think is more important for creating healthy, positive online spaces?

11. Social media platforms use algorithms to decide which posts appear in your feed. Would you support requiring platforms to show only content from accounts you follow by default, with algorithmic recommendations available for people who choose to turn them on?

12. Anything you would like to add about that?

13. If you had this choice, would you opt in to the algorithms that recommend content, or would you stick with a feed that only shows content from people you follow?

14. Anything you would like to add about that?

15. Should social media companies have more responsibility to think about the long-term cumulative and systemic harm that social media can cause (e.g. through addiction, repeated exposure to racist or misogynistic content and the amplification of outrage)?

16. Anything you would like to add about that?

17. Some people are concerned that requiring social media companies to avoid harm to users may restrict our right to free speech, because it could lead to more content being taken down. With this risk in mind, would you prefer tighter rules around social media, or keep it as is?

18. Anything you would like to add about that?

19. If you could change one thing to make social media a better place, what would it be?

20. Is there anything else you’d like to add?

21. What is your age?

22. Do you have children under 18?

23. Anonymity

Please choose one.