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A chronological feed is being worked on.
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Adam Mosseri, the head of the photo-sharing app, told a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday that the company is working on a new feed that would show users' posts in chronological order.
Users who prefer to have their posts and their friends posts surface in a timely manner are not happy with the company's algorithmically sorted feed. The current feed uses artificial intelligence to create a more personalized feed. Despite the company's assertions, it has remained generally unpopular among a vast swath of users.
The Senate subcommittee grilled Mosseri about child safety issues on the app, which was prompted in part by revelations from a whistle blower, who provided internal documents to The Wall Street Journal that suggested the company was aware its app may be toxic for teenagers. Have some compassion. As the hearing wound down, Sen. Marsha Blackburn chided Mosseri for taking some responsibility.
Mosseri proposed the creation of an industry body that would determine best practices for handling children's data and parental controls to help keep children safe online. Universal standards and protections would be created by the body with input from parents, regulators and civil society. Mosseri said that platforms would need to follow certain standards in order to earn the protections of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Senators were skeptical that an industry body could be effective. The time for self-policing is over, according to Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
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Section 230 is 25 years old, and it has never been more important.
The "Take a Break" feature was rolled out on Tuesday to users in the US and other English-speaking countries. The opt-in feature will prompt users to stop using the app after a certain period of time. Mosseri said Tuesday that more parental controls will be released next year.
Blumenthal told Mosseri that what he had suggested so far was not good. That won't save kids from the addictive effects of your platform.
