BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese social media app RedNote has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a likely imminent ban on the short video app in the United States.

With TikTok's days in the U.S. potentially 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.

RedNote is gaining ground globally in the same week that TikTok could disappear in the U.S. An increasing number of U.S. TikTok users are joining the app, many of them commenting that they are doing so as a way to challenge the measures the U.S. is taking to ban TikTok.