US EditionCalifornia's Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing Trump criticism
Governor Newsom calls for California DOJ to investigate TikTok for possible violation of state law after reports confirmed suppression of Trump-critical content post U.S. ownership change.
- On Jan. 26, 2026, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a review into whether TikTok suppressed content critical of President Donald Trump and asked the California Department of Justice to investigate potential legal violations.
- Following last week's U.S. joint-venture sale with ByteDance retaining 19.9%, TikTok users reported posts about Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the 'Epstein' file received zero views.
- Company statements pointed to technical issues and an outage, with TikTok and the new U.S. owners blaming a power outage at a U.S. data center; Newsom's office confirmed suppressed Trump-critical content and shared a user screenshot showing 'Epstein' blocked.
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TikTok announced last Friday that his social network in the U.S. became a new company formed between the original Chinese, Bytedance, and a majority of U.S. partners. Some of those partners were allies of President Donald Trump, including Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle. One of the points of the agreement says that the new society will “retrain and update TikTok’s content recommendation algorithm.” One day later, the U.S. immigration police, kn…
TikTok Users Claim Anti-Trump Posts Are Suddenly Being Censored, Gavin Newsom Vows Investigation
After TikTok was sold to a cabal of Trump’s buddies and donors, users say their posts criticizing ICE or mentioning the Epstein scandal are being buried with zero views, and now Gavin Newsom says the state will investigate.On Thursday, the Chinese-owned social video app TikTok was sold to a group of Donald Trump campaign donors and allies, including Trump donors Michael Dell and Larry Ellison’s Oracle. Come Monday morning, after ICE shot and kil…
Democrats Are Taking Claims of Anti-Trump Censorship on TikTok Seriously
Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA via APNational Democratic figures piled on TikTok as influencers and left-wing commentators accused it of censoring anti-Trump content in recent days.On Sunday, the day after Alex Pretti was fatally shot during the Trump administration's immigration offensive in Minnesota, TikTok users began reporting that videos mentioning the words “ICE,” “Epstein,” “Israel” and “Trump” from accounts with large followings were getting z…
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24heures.caUsers of TikTok in the United States claim to be unable to publish critical Donald Trump and ICE content.
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