{"id":214889,"date":"2025-01-14T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/american-tiktokrefugees-flood-chinese-social-media-app-ahead-of-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:30:24","slug":"american-tiktokrefugees-flood-chinese-social-media-app-ahead-of-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/american-tiktokrefugees-flood-chinese-social-media-app-ahead-of-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"American #TikTokrefugees flood Chinese social media app ahead of ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US TikTok users are flooding to a popular Chinese social media app ahead of America’s looming ban, using the hashtag #TikTokrefugees.<\/p>\n

RedNote, which is similar to Instagram, has quickly become the most downloaded app on the US App Store in recent days.<\/p>\n

The app is hugely popular in Mandarin-speaking countries and has more than 300 million monthly active users, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

The homepage of the app is full of Mandarin speakers welcoming Americans and Americans introducing themselves.<\/p>\n

“I’m American. Do y’all like us? We know y’all not the enemy. Can we all be friends?” reads one post with nearly 3,000 comments.<\/p>\n

The replies are a combination of people asking about specific English American phrases like “y’all”, welcoming the US contingent and making jokes about stealing data.<\/p>\n

“If you give me all your data we can get along,” said one reply, a jokey reference to the US’ concerns around national security and TikTok.<\/p>\n

Users who don’t speak Mandarin must agree to privacy notices and terms and conditions they can’t read, which is prompting some security concerns.<\/p>\n

In Taiwan, public officials are banned from using RedNote due to the alleged security risks of Chinese software, which is similar to a UK ban of TikTok on government devices.<\/p>\n

As it stands, TikTok will be banned in the US from Sunday<\/a><\/strong>, unless the Supreme Court overturns the law this week.<\/p>\n

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Congress passed a law last year that meant Bytedance, TikTok’s Chinese owners, would either have to sell the company or it would be banned.<\/p>\n

That has sparked the mass migration to RedNote, or Xiaohongshu, with that ban coming into force in under a week.<\/p>\n

However, social media expert Adam Tinworth told Sky News there may be a problem with US citizens trying to replace TikTok with another Chinese social media site.<\/p>\n

“The legislation that Biden got through the House has, although it specifically names TikTok and Bytedance, provisions where the government can unilaterally apply the same process to any other hostile-foreign-power owned-service.<\/p>\n

“So if it ends up everything on TikTok migrating to RedNote, then in theory, depending on how the Trump administration feel about it, [they] could just apply that same legislation straight away to rednote and shut it down equally easily.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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