NEW YORK - Chinese social media app RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu, gained nearly 3 million U.S. users in one day earlier this week as a flood of self-proclaimed "TikTok Refugees" joined, according to new data from analytics firm Similarweb.

As a TikTok ban looms, Americans are starting to download RedNote. Here's what you need to know about the app.

The deliberate choice to seek refuge on another app of Chinese origin says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time. The Supreme Court and the U.S. government seem hell-bent on pushing TikTok out of existence in the United States in the next week—at least unless its Chinese-based parent company,