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Rough Beast of the Day

Rough Beast of the Day

Is RedNote what is slouching toward America to be born?

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Virginia Heffernan
Jan 13, 2025
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Red Note is on the radar! More than on the radar: it’s the #1 social-media app in the App Store. You heard it here first. Could RedNote be our rough beast of the day?

So here’s the story. With the TikTok ban looming, TikTok illuminati are encouraging each other to drop MAGA-owned Instagram and Facebook in favor of a TikTok-clone that doesn’t try to mute its Chinese ownership but rather plays up its status as anti-American commie spyware.

Find your Chinese spy now! This of course is to spite both the U.S. government for the ban, but also the frershly MAGA-aligned social media like Instagram, X, and Facebook that are curbing speech in the U.S.

The suggestion is there’s more freedom among the Chinese spies than in Trump’s America.

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