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Who will buy TikTok? Lonely Hearts. And more.
By Oliver Wiseman
04.25.24
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Today from The Free Press: River Page on TikTok’s suitors, the myth of the young voter, three lonely hearts looking for love, and more. 

But first: a dispatch by Olivia Reingold, who spent part of the week with the students camped out on the Columbia lawn. It turns out that when they’re not telling their classmates to “go back to Poland,” they’re having …

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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