US EditionTaiwan to ban Chinese app RedNote over fraud concerns
- On Thursday, Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior ordered an immediate one-year block of Xiaohongshu, cutting access for some three million users in Taiwan and instructing internet service providers to block the app.
- After detecting rising fraud, Taiwan's investigators found Xiaohongshu linked to about 1,700 fraud cases with losses over 247.7 million New Taiwan dollars; operators lacked a local office and ignored improvement requests earlier this year.
- TWNIC activated DNS RPZ technical measures after receiving the Thursday administrative order, authorities said the blocking will target hundreds of IP addresses gradually, and users attempting to access RedNote should see error messages or loading spinners.
- The ministry said the block aims to protect citizens' information security, urging Google and other international platforms to stop Xiaohongshu ads, while Cheng Li-wun criticized it as restricting internet freedom.
- Against that backdrop, the ban intersects with wider regulatory and political pressure as Xiaohongshu grew this year, adding roughly 700,000 new U.S. users while facing scrutiny from Chinese regulators and Beijing.
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Taiwan has ordered a one‑year block on the Chinese social media app known internationally as RedNote (Xiaohongshu), after authorities linked the platform to a sharp rise in online fraud and determined it failed to meet the country’s cybersecurity standards. The ban affects an estimated three million users across the island, as Internet service providers implement technical measures to cut access immediately. According to Taiwanese regulators, th…
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