Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. With a possible TikTok ban looming, many U.S. users are flocking to ...

Sarina Trangle started as a corporate news reporter in October 2024. She previously spent four years on the business desk at Newsday, covering the health industry, commercial real estate and cannabis.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. With an impending ban of TikTok looming, many users of the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. China's RedNote app has seen a surge of over 500,000 U.S. users this ...

As Xiaohongshu — known as RedNote or Red in English — surged to the top of the App Store downloads list this week, users in both China and the U.S. celebrated an unprecedented cross-cultural exchange: ...

As the clock ticks down on TikTok's potentially final days in the U.S., scores of Americans are flocking to a surprising alternative: a popular Chinese social media platform called Xiaohongshu, or ...

Think twice before signing up for a TikTok competitor. I took a look at the types of data that popular social apps are collecting about you, and they aren't much better. I review privacy tools like ...

The RedNote app is surging with dark-humor memes.Illustration by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images I spent time on the Chinese app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, which Americans are flocking to ...