US TikTok users are flocking to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, also known as Red Note
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A looming TikTok ban in the US has prompted many of the app’s American users to try other Chinese-owned social media apps such as Red Note and Lemon8. These host short-form videos and photos and have recently become the most downloaded mobile apps on the US Apple App Store and Google Play store.
But Red Note – the English name for the Chinese app Xiaohongshu –…