President-elect Donald Trump said he had a "very good" call with China's President Xi Jinping on Friday about TikTok

Users have flooded the app with satirical videos poking fun at the U.S. government's claims about data security.

Entrepreneur Zhou Chaonan has become one of just three Chinese women billionaires in the ranks of world’s 500 richest people, propelled into the rarefied club by the rise of TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd.

As self-described " TikTok refugees" pour onto the Chinese social media app RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, some foreign netizens are already running up against the country's extensive censorship apparatus. Newsweek reached out to Xiaohongshu with a request for comment via a general contact email address.

The social media giant is now due to be outlawed in America by Sunday unless its Chinese-based owner ByteDance sells the US version of the app

The bizarre surge in popularity for Chinese social media app RedNote has sparked alarm among policy experts who warned it carries even greater security risks than TikTok.

Tesla ( TSLA) stock jumped 3% Friday amid speculation that CEO Elon Musk could potentially buy TikTok. The social media platform needs to find an American buyer, or it will effectively face a countrywide ban starting next week — and Musk is reportedly the most likely candidate.

After TikTok said it would be "forced to go dark" on Sunday unless the White House took action, President-elect Trump told ABC News he'd be likely to grant the social media company an extension.

TikTok plans on Sunday to cease operations of its highly popular social media platform in the United States unless President Joe Biden intervenes before he leaves office one day later. On Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News' Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker that he will "most likely" order a 90-day delay when he takes office Sunday.

With TikTok's days in the U.S. likely numbered, many American users are moving to another Chinese social media app: RedNote, a heavily censored platform similar to Instagram. Here's what to know.

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, is facing a ban in the United States. What happens next could set the tone for incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's relationship with Beijing.