Charlwin Mao, the Chinese tech founder welcoming ‘TikTok refugees’

Ahead of dreaded TikTok ban, US ‘refugees’ flee to China’s Xiaohongshu app but not all are welcoming

Chinese users are responding with a mix of enthusiasm for cultural exchange and frustration over altered algorithms.

Charlwin Mao, the Chinese tech founder welcoming ‘TikTok refugees’

A sudden surge of US users on Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, could threaten China’s Great Firewall

Furious at the idea of a possible ban on TikTok in the United States, many Chinese netizens turn to the Chinese Xiaohongshu app, careless about the use that may be given to their personal data. Outgoing President Joe Biden’s government accuses TikTok, owned by the Chinese ByteDance group, of authorizing Beijing to collect user data and spy on them, something denied by both the Asian giant and the company. However, a law passed in April 2024 runs…

TikTok is facing closure in the United States in case it is not sold to an American company. Its end could be imminent unless events turn, having Bydance to close operations in case it does not find buyer. This scenario has opened the door to alternatives, curiously, coming from China. Xiaohongshu is one of them, a supposed fate of TikTok who razed this week in the United States before the news of the possible closure. It is no wonder that there…

A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu or “Little Red Book”, who claims the name references the color of his university Stanford and ex-employer Bain

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Forward of dreaded TikTok ban, US ‘refugees’ flee to China’s Xiaohongshu app however not all are welcoming

“For these TikTok refugees, they wish to discover an alternate platform that’s owned by a Chinese language firm, (that) is extra Chinese language than TikTok,” stated Meng Ziying, a PhD researcher from Australia’s College of Melbourne. For abroad customers, Xiaohongshu can be extra accessible, in comparison with others like Douyin, the Chinese language model of TikTok, which requires a Chinese language cellular quantity to register for an accoun…