People walk over advertising for Chinese social networking and ecommerce app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, at a shopping centre in Beijing on Jan 15, 2025. — AFP
HONG KONG: Furious at the prospect of a US government ban on social media platform TikTok, American users have flocked to another Chinese-owned app in droves, many with a defiant message: “Take my data!”
TikTok has become another battleground showcasing China-US tensions, with President Joe Biden’s administration accusing the app of allowing Beijing to collect data and spy on users – claims denied by China and TikTok’s owner ByteDance.
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