Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, December 9th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Instagram is going to bring back a version of its chronological feed, kind of, the congressional hearings about

Instagram but also crypto.

I was wrong.

We are seeing Novi in the wild for the first time as WhatsApp starts testing it in the US, Deep Mind

Unbales its language model and say goodbye to Check's Notes Alexa. Here's what you

missed today in the world of Tech.

There was a bunch of congressional testimony yesterday.

For example, Instagramhead Adam Mossary testified before a Senate subcommittee looking at whether

or not

Instagram had a negative effect on the mental health of teen users.

Among other things, most are proposed updating section 230

so that tech companies are only protected if they

follow kids safety rules set by a new proposed government oversight body

quoting Bloomberg. The proposal from Missouri expandsarey expands a previous call from Meta-Chief Executive

Officer Mark Zuckerberg for lawmakers to update technology company's legal shield known as

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Critics say reforming the law would

only benefit dominant platforms that have resources to devote to complying with

the new legal requirements. Under most areas proposal Congress would form quote an

industry body that will determine best practices for how tech companies should

keep children and teens safe online. In consultation with outside experts

and advocates that group would develop uniform standards

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