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MIDDLE SCHOOLERS FLOOD NPR PODCAST COMMENTS ON SPOTIFY
NPR staff initially mistook unusual comments under their Spotify podcasts for bot activity, only to discover the influx was actually coming from Gen Z middle schoolers who had made the platform an unlikely social hangout.
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When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immedi…