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An assassination attempt rattled the nation. Then came the memes.
Alayna Cowan, a college student in Savannah, Ga., learned about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump from a news alert on her phone. She read the accompanying article, which reported that Trump’s health was stable. Then she opened TikTok. The first …