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year so far in tech. From American public media this is marketplace tech. I'm

Lilyromale. So today for our weekly review show Marketplace TechBites, we are breaking format and

taking stock of the past six months in tech with Maria Curie, a reporter at

Axios.

As we looked back, we asked her what was the most

underreported story on the beat, the biggest

tech flub of the last six months.

We'll get to those, but I started by asking Maria to share

her pick for the most impactful story from the first half of this year.

I think the most impactful moment was probably a Senate Judiciary

hearing where we had the biggest tech CEOs come

and testify on children's online safety.

There was a specific moment during that hearing where Mark Zuckerberg stood up and faced a crowd of parents who have lost their kids to, you know, to social media impacts or that's, you know, what they would say and and he apologized

after Senator Josh Holly had kind of egged him on to do that and it was a really

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