US EditionCalifornia's Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing Trump criticism
Governor Newsom called on the California Department of Justice to review if TikTok's Trump-critical content suppression under new U.S. owners breaches state law amid user complaints.
- 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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Newsom launches TikTok probe, accusing app of suppressing Trump criticism
California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok on Monday of suppressing content critical of US President Donald Trump as he launched a review to decide if its content moderation practices violated state law, while the platform cited a systems failure. Newsom’s statement came after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, last week finalised a deal to set up a majority US-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avert a ban on the short vide…
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, accused the social network TikTok of removing critical content to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Immigration and Control Service (ICE). Newsom also pointed out that he would seek to review the content moderation practices followed by the platform in order to investigate whether they violate the state law. However, TikTok attributed problems to a failure in the system.
Users of Tiktok complain that they cannot post videos on Alex Pretti's death. A journalist suspects that the platform censors contributions that are directed against US President Trump's policy. California's Governor Newsom wants to investigate the case.
The Democratic Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, announced that he had started an investigation (ANSA)
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