Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
- American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
- Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
- The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
because no US social media has ever affected an election?
Ah, ok. So we’re doing whataboutisms. Got it.
I’ll go next: China is pushing its authoritarian influence outside its borders by setting up Chinese police stations in foreign countries like Canada, to put pressure on Chinese abroad from saying or doing anything that would put a negative light on the CCP by threatening harm to family members still living in China.
You’re turn.