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

TechCrunch - Sep 25, 2026

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.

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