Innovation

Gen Z Is on a Never-Ending Search for Online Authenticity

UNREAL

BeReal and other new photo sharing social media apps are trying to cater to young people’s appetite for realness. They’re having the opposite effect.

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/BeReal

Dinner was chicken and dumplings at Brown University and, at 5:54 p.m. on a Tuesday in May, the dining hall was silent. Nearly every student had their head buried deep into the latest TikTok tutorial on their feed or the most recent Twitter update on the status of Kim Kardashian...

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