TikTok Tension: U.S. Users Mob Smaller Chinese App, Rivals YouTube Shorts & Instagram Reels Stand By; Trump Ponders Executive Order Delaying Sale, Ban
deadline.comWith no Supreme Court ruling on TikTok today, tensions are high. The wildly popular social media platform owned by China’s ByteDance could shut down in the U.S.
on Jan. 19 – just four days from now — or sell itself to an entity Stateside if the Justices do not rule otherwise. TikTok has 170+ million U.S.
users and many, in protest, have been flocking to another Chinese social media app called called Xiaohongshu, or RedNote in English, which has been one of the most downloaded apps on the Apple app store this week.
Meanwhile, U.S. rivals led by Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are set to reap advertising windfalls if TikTok is banned. In April, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Protecting Americans from Foreign Controlled Applications Act, which would ban Bydance-owned TikTok, based on national security concerns.
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