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 assumed the bizarre abbreviations and indecipherable emojis were bot traffic and shared screenshots in NP…
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