Chinese social media app RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu, gained nearly 3 million U.S. users in one day earlier this week as a flood of self-proclaimed “TikTok Refugees” joined, according to new data from analytics firm Similarweb.
The Chinese-language app had about 3.4 million daily active users across both iOS and Android devices in the United States as of Monday, up from fewer than 700,000 the day prior, and around 300,000 the week prior, according to the Similarweb estimate.
The influx of users has been driven by a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, used by 170 million Americans, on national security concerns.
The data suggests an even larger shift to RedNote by U.S. users this week than was previously known, explaining its dramatic rise to the top of U.S. app store download rankings. Reuters reported on Tuesday that more than 700,000 new users had joined the app in only two days.
Meanwhile, U.S. usage of TikTok declined ahead of the ban, down 2.1% week over week to about 82.2 million daily active users, Similarweb said.
While those things are bad, is anyone asking Chinese people if they’re actually putting Uyghurs in concentration camps and forcibly sterilizing them or is that just propaganda from the rest of the world?
If the question didn’t get removed completely, they would likely face punishment for answering.
There’s a lot of evidence out there from American journalists that the Chinese are in fact, not forcing sterilization on the Uighur population or putting them in concentration camps. https://medium.com/@braisedporkblog/debunking-the-uyghur-genocide-a-resource-list-a31dd0ea3d87
So their government is extremely critical of the topic and sensors it because it’s not happening and all is well?
Also, see a pattern? https://medium.com/@braisedporkblog
You’re using an ad hominem fallacy by saying the messenger is the problem and not refuting the evidence itself.
The USA is banning tiktok because it can’t control the platforms messaging in case misinformation is being spread in the USA. Why is it that China can’t also control the spread of this misinformation? Feels like you might be a chauvanist 🤷♂️
That’s China. They censor everything that could be viewed as an attack on something. Regardless of its veracity. It’s something the west doesn’t understand. They’re not censoring to hide something, they just censor regardless.
American general population are not intelligent enough to posit this. Signed, an American
I think this is actually why history repeats itself… the majority of people just aren’t smart enough to learn from past mistakes.
It’s less about intelligence, implying some innate talent or skill, and more about indoctrination and education, but I agree with the sentiment we are ill prepared for the recurring challenges we keep inflicting on ourselves.