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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Amy Hawkins

Chinese rival app Xiaohongshu is overwhelmed by ‘TikTok refugees’ in US

People stream outside the US Supreme Court as it considers the TikTok bid to halt a ban on the short-video app, on 10 January 2025.
People stream outside the US Supreme Court as it considers the TikTok bid to halt a ban on the short-video app, on 10 January 2025. Photograph: Marko Đurica/Reuters

When Angelica Oung received the notification that her Xiaohongshu account had been blocked for violating the social media app’s code of conduct, her mind started racing.

The only picture she had posted on her account, apart from her profile headshot, was of herself wearing an inflatable polar bear suit, holding a sign saying: “I love nuclear”. What could be the problem with that, wondered Oung, a clean energy activist in Taiwan.

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