News and Research articles on Food

Volume 15, Issue 4

The right to a healthy online environment: Corporate food advertising, digital platform regulation and algorithmic determinants of health

Christine Parker, University of Melbourne
Madeleine Stirling, University of Melbourne
Hope Johnson, Queensland University of Technology
PUBLISHED ON: 8 Oct 2026 DOI: 10.14763/2026.4.2126

The paper proposes a human rights-based approach to regulating the algorithmic determinants of health evident in online platform food advertising.

KEYWORDS: Platform governance, Social media, Advertising, Food, Human rights