The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok potentially being banned in the United States on Sunday.
after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform
Over 3 million new US users right now actually, according to Reuters
What reason do you have to think they are? Who has a motive to suddenly flood RedNote with fake Americans?
China trying to keep americans on a Chinese app vs an app they can’t control. Honestly, even here in Lemmy the conversation surrounding the TikTok ban looks like when bots and bad actors were appearing to support trump on Reddit in 2016.
China is still an adversary of the US with lots of human rights abuses and no qualms taking any advantage it can over the US. Zuckeberg isnt really much better, but he’s a harder problem to deal with
I wonder how/if TikTok will change after such rapid and specific flux in the community