"Say a Trump-friendly group of owners bought TikTok, and wanted to change the way TikTok worked - so it showed more stuff that was Trump-friendly, and less that wasn't. How would they go about doing that? I'm no engineer, but I would think that would be a pretty difficult project. You'd need to do it pretty subtly, over an extended time period, so people wouldn't notice it right away."
"And all of this, they say, is related to the fact that late last week, a group of companies from the US and Abu Dhabi took control of ( some of) TikTok's US operations, via a deal brokered by the Trump administration. The new US TikTok says that's not the case. It says its entire operation was screwed up Sunday because one of Oracle's data centers had an outage."
Users reported missing or reduced distribution of politically sensitive content, including posts about the death of Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti and alleged suppression of anti‑Trump videos. Some users also encountered a prohibition on the word "Epstein" in direct messages, which TikTok attributes to a bug it is fixing. A group of US and Abu Dhabi companies recently took control of portions of TikTok's US operations, and Oracle acknowledged a data-center outage that TikTok says disrupted service. Platform algorithms remain opaque, making definitive attribution of content changes difficult to verify.
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