Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book,” to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
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“I would rather stare at a language I can’t understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday.

then why tf did you use tiktok

TikTok is owned by ByteDance. Mark Zuckerberg does not own ByteDance

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Don’t they do the same things? In fact TikTok spies more stuff, but they just don’t sell it to private entities as much.

Tiktok doesn’t push neo-Nazi propaganda as aggressively as X did and it doesn’t censor news with class consciousness like Meta does.

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X is Musk, which is TL;DR quite different

it doesn’t censor news with class consciousness like Meta does

Maybe? But they do manually tell the algorithm to heavily favor the elite’s videos with their “heating” tool.

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