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TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms


A swarm of "TikTok refugees" has made RedNote the most downloaded app on Apple's US App Store.

Supreme Court justices are due to rule on a law that set a 19 January deadline for TikTok to either sell its US operations or face a ban in the country. TikTok has repeatedly said that it will not sell its US business and its lawyers have warned that a ban will violate free speech protections for the platform's 170 million users in the US. Marcus Robinson, a fashion designer in Virginia, said he created his RedNote account over the weekend to share his clothing brand and "be ahead of the curve".

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