Trump's Approved Us Version of Tiktok Had a Rocky Start

The new US TikTok probably isn't censoring anti-Trump views. But how could you tell if it was?

Donald Trump's administration brokered a deal that let Larry Ellison's Oracle buy a piece of TikTok's US operations.Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesTikTok acted up over the weekend. TikTok says that's because of a data center outage.Still, some people believe the US version of TikTok is now censoring anti-Trump views.They're probably wrong. But TikTok, like all other platforms, runs on a black-box algorithm. It's nearly impossible to find out how it w…

TikTok outages fuel censorship claims after new US investor takeover

TikTok’s newly created US business, run by a group of mainly American investors approved by President Donald Trump, is starting with a problem it can’t spin away: the app has been glitchy for days. Outage claims collide with censorship fears TikTok says the disruption was caused by a power outage at an Oracle data center, not by any effort to suppress criticism of Trump. The company said Tuesday morning it had made “significant progress” restori…

The Trump-approved US TikTok is off to a rough start - CEO North America

TikTok’s new US business, led by a group of mainly American investors approved by President Donald Trump, is off to an inauspicious start. The wildly popular TikTok app has been on the fritz for several days. While other social media sites have been full of speculation that the Trump-aligned joint venture is suppressing criticism, TikTok insists otherwise, and says the trouble stemmed from a power outage at a data center belonging to Oracle, one…