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Despite Spotifys guidelines, USA Today found at least 66 suggestive or hostile playlists, plus a slew of others that contain mixed political messages.

The podcast has absolutely popped off! Did you envision it going this bonkers? Never! I initially set myself a goal to get 100 downloads and not even a full year later and I’ve almost reached 2 million downloads! Amazing! What was the moment you knew the podcast had made it? Definitely the Renee [Barrett]  Bachelor in Paradise reunion. That episode went viral instantly and had tens of thousands of listens in just a few hours. The tea was about our OG superspreader Ciarran Stott and it was ...

My kids were home and I spent a lot of time with headphones on — noise-canceling ones.

June 3, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Sorayut Yookham/EyeEm, via Getty Images Opinion Columnist Something unexpected happened to me during lockdown: I gained deeper appreciation for my ears. I don’t mean aesthetically, (though I’ve got no problem in that department, believe me), but rather functionally. As the coronavirus put much of the world off limits, and my household became suddenly crowded and chaotic, I increasingly began to think of audio as a kind of refuge. Glass screens had been co...