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RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users. Rumors swirl that RedNote may segregate Chinese users as soon as next week.

Rumors swirl that RedNote may segregate Chinese users as soon as next week.

Some were kicked off for reasons they didn't totally understand because "users are joining the app but are unable to read the Community Guidelines, which are written in Mandarin." It was founded in 2013 by Mao Wenchao and Miranda Qu Fang as an Instagram-like knockoff where Chinese users and lifestyle influencers could share pictures and text posts. But The Washington Post reported that the app is designed to be apolitical and its co-founder, Mao, maintains that the name instead pays "homage to the colors of his college," Stanford Business School, and his former employer, Bain Capital.

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