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'TikTok refugees' flock to another (heavily censored) Chinese app

Jan 15, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Wang added that the trend will last only if Xiaohongshu secures government support to adapt for international users.
27% : The court's stance has many fearing that the ban will take effect Sunday, the day before Donald Trump, who has pledged to "save" the app after previously calling it a tool of Chinese disinformation, is sworn in as president.
16% : As early as 2020, soon after Trump initially proposed restricting TikTok, China's Ministry of Commerce changed export restrictions to give the government veto power over the transfer of TikTok's core algorithms.

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