(Jewish Group) Think antisemitism was bad on TikTok? Wait till you see Rednote

TikTok went dark briefly over the weekend before Trump, delighting its users, reinstated the platform. Logging back on, however, users found something had changed: They could no longer post “Free Palestine.” Comments supporting Palestinians or Gaza were automatically flagged and deleted.

Widespread support for Palestinians on TikTok was among the driving forces behind congressional efforts to ban the platform, even though the engagement with pro-Palestinian hashtags was approximately equivalent to that on other social media platforms in the wake of Oct. 7. Evidently, the platform took action when it came back online to prevent the complaint from recurring.

Even before the ban briefly went into effect, however, users began to download a Chinese platform called RedNote — the most popular app in the country — to replace the Chinese-owned TikTok; many said they were doing so out of fear that the app’s loss would result in an inability to get true information about Gaza. Theories circulated that Israel was behind the ban, and an uncensored app was the only way to get the truth.

On RedNote, Americans were welcomed by Chinese users usually unable to have much contact with the Western world due to their government’s internet firewall. People began to exchange recipes, compare housing and help each other with their language homework.

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