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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.
Sofia Barnett
Published
Sep. 9 2022
11:13PM EDT
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/BeReal
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