Notably, RedNote (Xiaohongshu) is still available for download from the U.S. app store, despite being a Chinese-owned platform subject to China's data privacy and censorship laws. In the lead-up to TikTok's banning, many users have flocked to the video-forward platform as a potential alternative.
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Several social media apps have appearing high in app store chart rankings as a potential U.S. ban hangs over the heads of TikTok and its American users.
Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? You’re not the only one. Amid a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, content creators have been pushing the platform’s sister app.
With TikTok's days in the U.S. likely numbered, many American users are moving to another Chinese social media app: RedNote, a heavily censored platform similar to Instagram. Here's what to know.
TikTok may be banned in the U.S. over the weekend, but Americans are heading to another Chinese-owned video platform: RedNote.
Unless TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells the app into new ownership, TikTok will be removed from Apple and Google app stores on Sunday, Jan. 19, reports CNN. The app will still be accessible on phones that have it previously downloaded, but it will not be able to update.
TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., but that may not be permanent. U.S. TikTok users lost access to the app late Saturday, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a bipartisan law that banned TikTok nationwide, provided it was still controlled by its Chinese parent company.
TikTok became unavailable in U.S. on Saturday evening after Supreme Court upheld the ban. Follow along for live updates.
President-elect Donald Trump said he will issue an executive order Monday to give TikTok's parent company more time to sell.
App goes dark with ‘temporarily unavailable’ message but hopes Trump will save it - TikTok posts message saying the incoming president, who will be sworn in on Monday, could help the app get up and ru