TikTok Outage Sparks Trust Questions After US-Backed Ownership Shift
TL;DR
TikTok’s US outage coincides with the company’s transfer to majority-US investors, fueling fears that the new owners could influence the algorithm or suppress political content; TikTok says the disruption is a power outage at a US data center, with no evidence of censorship, while engagement and posting were affected. The episode heightens scrutiny of the new USDS Joint Venture and Oracle’s stake, though details on governance and data practices remain unclear.
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- TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners WIRED
- TikTok apologises after thousands of US users report app issues BBC
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- TikTok blames power outage for widespread glitches that many users say are censorship NBC News
- The TikTok outage cause revealed Mashable
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