Americans are using the Chinese Red Note app to express their frustration with the TikTok ban
The deliberate choice to seek refuge on another app of Chinese origin says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.
The Supreme Court and the U.S. government seem hell-bent on pushing TikTok out of existence in the United States in the next week—at least unless its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, accedes to a fire sale to a suitable buyer based closer to home. But the curious rise of a competitor app up the App Store rankings in recent days highlights what exactly TikTok’s userbase makes of the ballyhooed “national security threat” Supreme Court justices and government prosecutors were arguing over earlier this month in a last-ditch attempt to try and save the app from a ban.