Faced with a looming ban on TikTok in the U.S., hundreds of thousands of former users of the China-owned video sharing app are fleeing to another Chinese social media platform called Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in English.
Experts are warning that these self-styled “TikTok refugees” flocking to the mostly lifestyle and travel site that until recently was little known outside of China will quickly encounter the same data safety and censorship issues that bedeviled TikTok.