Gavin Newsom Has Identified the Wrong TikTok Evil

Is TikTok suppressing posts about Trump's problematic old pal?

It didn’t take long for things to get weird after TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, handed the app’s U.S. reins over to a slate of American investors approved by President Donald ...

Gavin Newsom has identified the wrong TikTok evil

Is TikTok censoring content under its new ownership, as California Governor Gavin Newsom has claimed? The honest answer is probably not, but that’s a far weaker reassurance than it sounds. Take the viral reports that “Jeffrey Epstein” is now being censored on the platform. I tested this myself and found it wasn’t true. You can search his name, find videos discussing the case, and scroll through conspiracy content without issue. Then there’s the …

TikTok is suppressing ‘content critical of President Trump’ in the US, California governor claims – as investigation looks into whether it 'violates' state law

California Governor Gavin Newsom is launching a review of TikTok's potential violations after more users are reporting anti-Trump censorship.

Is TikTok restricting anti-Trump posts in the US? California Governor Newsom probes alleged censorship

Trending News: TikTok has recently finalised a deal with investors to create its own standalone US company, dodging a potential nationwide ban after years of drama o.

Gavin Newsom goes to war to dig into TikTok 2.0’s alleged anti-Trump censorship, and you can bet it won’t end quietly

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on X that he is launching a formal review into whether the newly reorganized U.S. operations of TikTok are illegally suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump, after the platform’s high-profile sale to a Trump-aligned business group. In a pair of posts on X from his press office and his own account, Newsom and his team outlined the basis for the state-level investigation. “Following TikTok’…

TikTok insists it’s not suppressing anti-Trump content now its US business is run by Trump allies

TikTok has insisted that issues on its platform within the US in recent days are the result of technical problems caused by a power outage at one of its data centres. And nothing to do with the Donald Trump fans who are now in charge of the all new TikTok USA business instigating revised editorial rules that deprioritise or block content criticising the President and his administration. The new TikTok USA company took over TikTok’s US operations…