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Mar 2022
49m 46s

You Can't Hit Unsend

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Social media sites offer quick and easy ways to share ideas, crack jokes, find old friends. They can make us feel part of something big and wonderful and fast-moving. But the things we post don’t go away. And they can come back to haunt us. Today, we revisit a 2019 episode about one teenager’s social media posts, and how they destroyed an opportunity he’d wo ... Show More
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