The move is under discussion as the Chinese-owned app faces a Sunday deadline to find a new buyer or shut down in the United States.

"We're going to find a way to preserve it but protect people's data." “Trump could come out as the hero in all of this,” said Jennifer Grygiel, an associate professor of communications at Syracuse University who studies social media.

TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal ban comes into effect, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to block the ban, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

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,

Americans who have joined RedNote in protest of the U.S. government’s looming ban on TikTok have found new connections across international borders.