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With TikTok U.S. Ban Looming, Users Flock to Red Note — Another Chinese-Owned App
With a TikTok U.S. ban looming, American users are downloading an alternative: Chinese-owned social app Xiaohongshu, aka "Red Note."
TikTok could be outlawed in the U.S. as soon as Jan. 19 over concerns about its Chinese ownership, unless it gets a reprieve from the Supreme Court or if Beijing-based parent company ByteDance complies with a federal law forcing it to sell its stake in the app. Red Note is owned by a Chinese-based company, Xingin Information Technology (Shanghai) — and many TikTok “refugees” have been delighting in the irony that the U.S.’s potential ban of one Chinese app over national security fears is driving the adoption of another one. On Tuesday, more than 100,000 people had joined a live group-chat on Red Note hosted by a user with the handle “TikTok Refugee Club,” where “people from around the world chatted with Chinese users about urban safety,” while in another forum participants “discussed censorship and shared tips in the comments on how to avoid being banned from the platform for bringing up politically sensitive topics,” per the New York Times.
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