TikTok Ban: RedNote Poses National Security Risks Too, Experts Warn [Video]

With the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on the cusp of a ban in the U.S. on January 19, its American users have flocked to a similar alternative called RedNote, sending it racing to the top of app store download charts.

Officials in Washington say TikTok’s ownership by Chinese company ByteDance leaves it vulnerable to exploitation by the CCP regime in Beijing, putting the security and privacy of Americans at risk.

TikTok is facing a ban over these national security concerns unless its Chinese owners divest. ByteDance and TikTok deny it poses any such threat or that it is under CCP influence, and warn the popular app will disappear for its 170 million users in America.

But there is a familiar potential problem with RedNote: It is also owned by a Chinese technology company, raising the same kind of national security questions for the U.S. as TikTok has.

Shanghai-based Xingyin Information Technology is the owner of RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu in China. …