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What's Rednote? Another kind of Tiktok?
RedNote is an app similar to Tiktok but actually owned by the Chinese Government.
What is even more crazy is that it's not really even localized and most of the app is in Mandarin.
My initial comment is completely incorrect. I apologize for spreading misinformation.
As other commenters pointed out, RedNote is a private company operating in mainland China and is not owned by the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaohongshu#History
This appears to be a publicly traded company based in China. But it isn't owned by the Chinese Government any more than Facebook or Twitter is owned by the American government.
Facebook and Twitter more accurately own the American government. Or at least their oligarch owners own the American government.