"Over the past several days, TikTok users have found themselves at a loss. Literally, I mean: They lost their audiences, and their view counts showed "0." Some people who attempted to upload content about anti-ICE protests or the killing of Alex Pretti alleged that the platform was intentionally blocking them from doing so. Others were able to get their videos uploaded, but alleged that TikTok was not distributing them."
"For many of these people, the explanation was obvious: " MAGA censorship." Newsom said in his post that he would be launching a review "into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content," and the concern isn't totally random. TikTok's U.S. business changed hands just last week, spinning off from the Chinese company ByteDance-as-required by a 2024 law-and into a new organization called the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC."
"Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson from TikTok USDS Joint Venture, wrote to me in an email that the app is being run as it was before and that American users will "continue to have the same experience they already know and love." The company has blamed the issues on a power outage at one of its data centers, which it said caused a "cascading" systems failure affecting all types of content (not just posts about Minnesota)."
Many TikTok users experienced sudden loss of views and audiences, with view counts showing "0." Some creators could not upload posts about anti-ICE protests or the killing of Alex Pretti, while others saw their uploaded videos not distributed. Some users could not send the word Epstein in direct messages, prompting a repost by California Governor Gavin Newsom. The timing followed a U.S. spin-off from ByteDance into TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC with major investors including Oracle. TikTok said the app is operating as before and blamed a power outage at an Oracle-operated data center for a cascading systems failure.
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