With TikTok banned in the US, many social media users are scrambling to find a replacement. One platform quickly gaining traction is RedNote, a Chinese-owned app that has seen a surge in popularity.

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China-based RedNote has experienced a huge surge in downloads from users in the US and worldwide as the 19 January deadline for the US TikTok ban approaches. The app, a mix of Instagram, TikTok, and ...

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As the future of TikTok hangs in the balance of Congress and the Supreme Court, another Chinese social media app is rising to take TikTok's place in the U.S. Unless Bytedance, TikTok's parent company, ...

The bizarre surge in popularity in the US for China-based social media app RedNote ahead of the looming TikTok ban has sparked alarm among policy experts – who warned it carries even greater security ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the federal law to ban the social media app TikTok on Sunday if it’s not sold to an American entity. The court says the risk to ...

As Xiaohongshu — known as RedNote or Red in English — surged to the top of the App Store downloads list this week, users in both China and the U.S. celebrated an unprecedented cross-cultural exchange: ...

As the clock ticks down on TikTok's potentially final days in the U.S., scores of Americans are flocking to a surprising alternative: a popular Chinese social media platform called Xiaohongshu, or ...

In an unexpected twist, RedNote, known in its home country as Xiaohongshu, has burst onto the U.S. digital scene. With over 697,000 downloads so far in 2025, the platform has outpaced giants like ...