scoop: a former Meta employee who lost their job in the company’s recent layoffs was detained by ICE in El Paso, Texas, sources tell WIRED. It’s unclear whether they remain in custody.
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Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.
Rednote went viral last year *because* it was a platform where people could talk to Chinese people and learn about their lives directly, but Xiaohongshu knows that building a truly global social media app just isn’t possible for a Chinese company
As @zeyiyang.bsky.social reports, it looks like Xiaohongshu is trying to take a mixed approach like WeChat did—one app where everyone can communicate, but Chinese users are more heavily censored
there’s a ton of censorship pressure on companies like Xiaohongshu in the domestic market, but that heavy-handed moderation would never fly with ppl in, say, the United States
