The shift from rednote to Tiktok. Are Americans turning against their own government in the 2020s?
(Title is supposed to be “the shift from TikTok to Rednote. Sorry)
With Tiktok heading out the door in under a week, many Americans on tiktok have found the Chinese app, "rednote", as a viable alternative. The website is more strict in policy, and it is mostly dominated by mandarin speaking users.
It seems like this migration to the app is in part because of the distrust many Americans feel towards the government. Most of them don't realize why the government wanted to ban tiktok, and so have fled to a new CCP controlled app in order to spite them. I have to wonder if we'll see more Americans believing in Chinese propaganda now that rednote's policy allows for China to have complete control over what is posted. This has the potential to become a serious problem if China follows through on invading Taiwan in 2027. If the majority of Americans believe that Taiwan belongs to China, and the US doesn't do anything about it, we will see devastating consequences. But hopefully, things don't turn out that way.