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Mar 2022
49m 46s

You Can't Hit Unsend

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
About this episode
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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