The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR's comment section?

The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR's comment section?

When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.

The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?

Parents have spent years trying to keep their kids off social media, so some kids headed to the one place no adult would think to look for them: NPR. On this week’s “This American Life,” host Ira Glass tells the story of the team behind NPR’s podcast “Wild Card,” who noticed a flood of baffling…