TechCrunch
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.
Via TechCrunch
·Excerpt
In Brief
Posted:
1:33 PM PDT · September 25, 2026
Image Credits:Murat Deniz / Getty Images
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 comments under their Spotify episodes last fall. A producer…
Courtesy
This story was originally published by TechCrunch. All rights belong to the original publisher.
Read the original on techcrunch.com ↗