TikTok has restored service in the U.S. less than 24 hours after its nationwide shutdown. On Sunday, Jan. 19, TikTok announced on X, via an official statement shared to its policy account, that it is "in the process of restoring service" to Americans after going dark the night prior .

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.

A U.S. ban of TikTok began to take effect on Sunday, capping a high-stakes battle that pitted the federal government against one of the nation's most popular social media platforms.

Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, has been hiring for a surprising position in recent days: English-language content moderators.

TikTok was not available for many of its 170 million users in the U.S. hours before a ban on the popular social media platform was supposed to officially go into effect.

TikTok has returned to American app stores and resumed its service in the US after temporarily going off on Saturday amidst an expected federal ban.

TikTok is back. The app noted in a statement on Sunday that they are “in the process of restoring service” following incoming President Trump’s pledge to sign an executive order delaying the implementation of the bill which would require the company to divest.

The TikTok ban in the United States is over, one day after the app stoped working for 170 million American users.

A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service.

Following a temporary outage brought on by a government prohibition due to national security concerns related to its Chinese parent business, ByteDance, TikTok resumed operations in the United States on Sunday.

No matter what TikTok says in its laudatory pop-up messages, President-elect Donald Trump cannot simply declare an extension of the TikTok ban deadline and protect American companies that support it from billions of dollars in fines.