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

The Supreme Court issued its opinion on the looming ban of TikTok in America upholding that the law will stay in effect, essentially forcing the app’s Chinese owner to sell its American holdings by Sunday or be forced to go dark.

In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the justices rejected efforts by TikTok and its parent company to challenge the law, citing national security concerns stemming from the app’s data

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.

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.

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.

TikTok said it will have to “go dark” this weekend unless the outgoing Biden administration assures the company it won’t enforce a shutdown of the popular app after the Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning the app unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.