While social media rumors have suggested the errors are an example of censorship, more than a day after the issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are the result of a power outage at a data center that it is working to resolve. While rumors of censorship targeting anti-ICE protests or blocking discussion of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be misguided (even the Governor of California is re-sharing misinformation posted on Twitter by “IntelligentPog” and PopBase), problems and glitches have led to all types of videos and messages being blocked on the service as of Monday night.
Starting Sunday morning, TikTok’s now newly owned US branch began falling apart just days after Oracle & Co. took the reins. Its For You page algorithm has suddenly become unreliable, while features like comments are failing to load or loading slowly, and publishing new videos seems almost impossible for many.
Read below for the latest updates on the ongoing TikTok problems, as we try to investigate the social media claims to see which are true and which are more nonsense.
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