Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

Middle schoolers used the Spotify comment section of an NPR podcast to communicate, a phenomenon explored in a recent episode of This American Life.
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly boils down to kids […]
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