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TikTok, Bin Laden, and the Problem of Social Media

TikTok, Bin Laden, and the Problem of Social Media
The TikTok app is displayed on an Apple iPhone. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Twenty-two years out from 9/11, and Osama bin Laden is back as the new Che Guevara. Pretty soon, he’ll be on T-shirts across the country worn by people who don’t have the faintest idea who he really was.

Roger L. Simon
Roger L. Simon
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Prize-winning author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Roger L. Simon’s latest of many books is “American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States.”
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