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BeforeThe TikTok Refugee Movement emerged in 2024 as millions of TikTok users in the United States organized collective migration to alternative social media platforms in response to federal legislation targeting TikTok's operations. The movement coalesced around the #TikTokRefugee hashtag, which became one of the most widely shared tags across multiple platforms during the period of legislative action. Users coordinated mass account creation on services including RedNote (known in China as Xiaohongshu or Little Red Book), Lemon8, and other platforms, treating platform migration as a form of …
AfterThe "TikTok refugee" movement is the mobilization of TikTok users against the U.S. divest-or-ban law, and the migration to other platforms that accompanied it. ## The law and the case The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act made it unlawful, as of January 19, 2025, for U.S. companies to distribute, maintain or update TikTok unless the platform's U.S. operation were severed from Chinese control. TikTok and a group of U.S. users challenged it on First Amendment grounds. The Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion on January 17, 2025, two days before the …