The “TikTok refugees”, these Americans who, faced with the possible ban on the application in the United States this Sunday, are migrating to another Chinese application: RedNote, or Xiaohongshu in Chinese (literally, “the little red book”) . This platform, a sort of mix of Instagram and Pinterest popular with Chinese urban youth, gives rise to astonishing exchanges between Americans and Chinese. Discussions that pose a challenge to Beijing’s censorship, accustomed to exercising firm control over social networks.
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