As a ban on TikTok in the United States looms, hundreds of thousands of young people are reportedly flocking to a Chinese social media platform owned by a Chinese military-affiliated company. RedNote, which has received significant investment from Tencent, a Chinese technology conglomerate also on the Pentagon's blacklist, is raising concerns about its potential to be the next TikTok. Lawmakers are apprehensive about another Chinese social media platform gaining influence in the United States, citing concerns about censorship and surveillance.
ban in the United States looms, hundreds of thousands of young people are reportedly flocking to a Chinese social media platform that a Pentagon-designated “Chinese military company” owns a substantial stake in.of young so-called TikTok refugees, has received multiple large rounds of investment from the Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent. The U.S.
Tencent’s ties to the Chinese government were well documented even before the Pentagon designated it as a Chinese military company.two terms as part of China’s CCP-controlled National People’s Congress, and WeChat, a Tencent-owned messaging service popular in China, engages in censorship and surveillance on behalf of the CCP,
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