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• @cagovernor Governor Gavin Newsom on x

  It's time to investigate. I am launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.

• @bishopwhitewind @bishopwhitewind on bluesky

  What's he going to do ban tiktok more?

• @stucowan Stu Cowan on bluesky

  Perfect time for the White House to demand 1A rights be enforced! [embedded post]

• r/technology r on reddit

  Newsom to review whether TikTok is censoring content critical of the current president

• @intelligentpawg Tori on x

  so the agreement for tiktok to sell its US business to GOP backed investors was finalized a few days ago and now you can't mention epstein lmao [image]

• @govpressoffice @govpressoffice on x

  NEW: Following TikTok's sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports — and independently confirmed instances — of suppressed content critical of President Trump. @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom is launching a review of this conduct and is calling on the

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  Newsom is posting this slop while simultaneously advocating for mass censorship and surveillance laws in the name of “child safety.” Make no mistake: he VERY MUCH supports online censorship.

• @krassenstein Brian Krassenstein on x

  BREAKING: After Trump's allies took over TikTok this week, any mention of “Epstein” in DMs are not permitted. Here's proof. Anyone else is free to try it. [video]

• @furbeti @furbeti on x

  Days after the US took over majority ownership of TikTok, the word ‘Epstein’ has been censored. [image]

• r/NPR r on reddit

  TikTok investigating why some users can't write “Epstein” in messages

• r/technology r on reddit

  TikTok investigating why some users can't write “Epstein” in messages

• @tiktokusdsjv @tiktokusdsjv on x

  Since yesterday we've been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate. We're working with our data center partner to stabilize our service. We're sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon.

• @tiktokusdsjv @tiktokusdsjv on x

  An update on our work to restore and stabilize TikTok. [image]

• @popbase @popbase on x

  TikTok now censors the word “Epstein” when mentioned in DMs by users in the U.S. Currently, the word is not being filtered for users in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world. [image]

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  someone in tech please correct me if i'm wrong, but “our data center power outage is inadvertently limiting the reach of your ICE posts” does not scan to me

• @teroterotero Tero Kuittinen on x

  TikTok sinks to Number 16 on censorship backlash as upstart rival UpScrolled soars to Number 6. These are big moves. New owners have mishandled the TikTok takeover just about as badly as anyone could. Amazing scenes. [image]

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  @MikeIsaac TT was 100% fucked up yesterday. All the ice posts were gone but so was everything else I normally got. Instead I mostly got videos about how great corvettes were. If it was a censorship plot it wasn't executed well. Also everything was back to normal today.

• @scott_wiener Senator Scott Wiener on x

  TikTok is now state-controlled media. This morning I posted a TikTok about my legislation allowing people to sue ICE agents. It's sitting at zero views, and I'm not the only person this is happening to. [image]

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Correct. The statement/explanation from TikTok makes zero sense. Someone should absolutely hold them to backing up this answer. A single data center wouldn't bias the algorithm(s) determining amplification/reach, those would be consistent across their data centers.

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  @MikeIsaac @pkafka The issues of content suppression long predate these past few days, but it's undeniable that the company/app's systems have been suppressing progressive political content on the app for a while (likely to not inflame things and blow up the deal as it was negoti…

• @hasanthehun @hasanthehun on x

  so glad our american billionaires bought tiktok to do pro trump and pro israel propaganda and we no longer have to experience chinese style censorship!

• @popcrave @popcrave on x

  Megan Stalter says she's deleting TikTok after it wouldn't allow her to upload anything ICE-related: “Let's delete the app” [image]

• @hbendaas Hamid Bendaas on x

  A simple example of Democrats' complicity in Trump's authoritarianism would be that he proposed a TikTok ban in his first term, couldn't get the votes, and then under Biden Democrats passed it for him to quell their own voters' criticism about Gaza, and now Trump's lackeys run it

• @krassenstein Brian Krassenstein on x

  BREAKING: TIKTOK has been completely throttling most political posts since 24 hours ago, right after the deal closed where Trump allies took over the US portion of the platform. Any post I make about Alex Pretti receives between 0 and 1000 views. I have over 125,000 followers [im…

• @petertwinklage Peter Twinklage on x

  delete TikTok. Nazis now control the algorithm. the app is dead.

• @thetnholler @thetnholler on x

  UPDATE: TIKTOK IS COOKED. Our @tiktok_us videos went from tens of thousands to 0. (seemingly a direct result of Trump & Bibi's friends taking over) [image]

• @jules_su Jules Suzdaltsev on x

  the new TikTok algorithm has ZERO, and I mean absolutely ZERO news or politics content, not one word about anything going on at all, not even the weather

• @gianmarcosoresi Gianmarco on x

  I just want to say that I have other videos recently uploaded to TikTok with no reference to anything political with zero views. I have little doubt the people running it are tweaking the algorithm in ways that suppress speech but also remember they're fucking idiots generally

• @keitholbermann Keith Olbermann on x

  BREAKING: Correct. With no explanations. @tiktok_us has throttled or frozen individual videos criticizing ICE and simply disabled entire accounts whether the video pertains to ICE or not - and not even offered spurious explanations or notices #TikTokCensorship [image]

• @palmediaorg @palmediaorg on x

  TikTok was more free under Chinese ownership:

• @mirrorbilllie @mirrorbilllie on x

  the fact that it says this video has 0 views and tiktok is completely silencing this is insane. it's terrifying and everyone should be very scared. [image]

• @ryangrim Ryan Grim on x

  Tiktok out here recreating Threads. It's funny that we had to take it away from the Chinese Communist Party in order to turn it into a full on propaganda machine

• @zackoryk Zackory Kirk on x

  Two days into the TikTok sale and it's already down? No new content has posted in 8 hours?

• @shatired @shatired on x

  Idk, if tiktok actually takes away monetization I think it's pretty weird to celebrate some people losing their primary source of income in this economy because you don't think it's a “real job”

• @hoopztarot @hoopztarot on x

  Tik tok ads aren't currently labeled, neither are Tik tok shop vids. The algorithm is repeating vids you likely saw about 30 mins ago, the vids you're posting are getting no views. Oh they messed ts up baddd😭

• @guychristensen_ YourFavoriteGuy on x

  I cannot post on TikTok. All my videos are stuck at 0 views. Seems to be a site-wide problem. [image]

• @jessicalburbank Jessica Burbank on x

  I'm not allowed to be a tik tokker anymore I guess???? Without explanation my videos are shown to 0 people now. [image]

• @the_transit_guy Hayden on x

  Fascinating that TikTok, under CCP ownership, saw less censorship than American billionaire Trump donors.

• @rnaudbertrand Arnaud Bertrand on x

  Turns out that freedom of speech was when TikTok was Chinese.

• @actingliketommy @actingliketommy on x

  Trump's buddies have had TikTok for one day and it's already broken as shit.

• @jonathanzliu Jonathan Liu on x

  every video i posted on tiktok today is stuck at 0 views. algo is terrible, showing me generic videos not in my niche. check the news. tiktok is down. holy fucking shit. [image]

• @andylevy.net @andylevy.net on bluesky

  yeah this was a tech issue not a political issue arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...

• @rusty.todayintabs.com Rusty Foster on bluesky

  I'm also seeing posts by creators talking about how suddenly they have zero views on their posts, and indeed the post has zero views and after I watch it it still has zero views.  Everyone has to be a little more skeptical of the numbers we see on websites. arstechnica.com/tech-p…

• @pnwpolicyangel @pnwpolicyangel on bluesky

  TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published.  Incredible.

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  it's entirely possible that this is true and it takes time for algorithm changes to be coded; but I have so little faith in Oracle that my immediate reaction was an internal ‘sure, Jan’ [embedded post]

• @washingtonpost.com @washingtonpost.com on bluesky

  TikTok users say the platform suppressed or delayed videos about the killing of Alex Pretti, accusing that posts tied to the incident drew few views or were stalled amid broader technical issues on the site.

• @henryhenryhenry.com C. Henry on bluesky

  sure, yeah, sure, multitude of reasons to take TikTok USDS at its word [embedded post]

• @nycsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw on bluesky

  Can't help but notice a lot of social media reports of Tik Tok censoring anti-ICE content in its first weekend under Trump-directed US management, and no mainstream news coverage thus far.

• r/politics r on reddit

  Users say TikTok stifled posts about Minneapolis shooting as platform faltered

• @realupscrolled @realupscrolled on x

  Well, this is new... You showed up so fast our servers tapped out. Frustrating? Yes. Emotional? Also yes. We're a tiny team building what Big Tech stopped being. Right now we're scaling on caffeine to keep up with what YOU started. Bear with us. We're on it. [image]

• @teroterotero Tero Kuittinen on x

  UpScrolled is racing up the US download charts as TikTok censorship backlash picks up momentum. It's already Number 2 social media app in the country. Cannot keep up the momentum? [image]

• @teroterotero Tero Kuittinen on x

  UpScrolled just passed TikTok in US downloads after the extent of censorship of the new TikTok owners became apparent. Safe to say nobody realized how crude and overwhelming the clampdown on certain content on TikTok would be. They went Khmer Rouge from day one. [image]

• @guychristensen_ YourFavoriteGuy on x

  Meta blacklisted me from their platform the same week our community rallied to deliver 250K in aid into Gaza. The control of billionaires over our social platforms is not just violating our rights- it is literally killing people. Choose freedom. Come to Upscrolled.

• @guychristensen_ YourFavoriteGuy on x

  TikTok's been sold off to a surveillance billionaire. The algorithm is compromised and the censorship will only get worse. UpScrolled isn't perfect, but it's ours and it's where this movement goes next. Spread the word. Get on UpScrolled. [video]

• @paulbiggar Paul Biggar on x

  UpScrolled (@realUpScrolled) is blowing up due to the Tiktok ban - #2 in the US right now. It's ethical social media: no shadowbans, no algorithmic bullshit, no controls on your feed, not designed for addiction, doesn't sell your data. Get it in the app stores! [image]

• @shaykhsulaiman Sulaiman Ahmed on x

  I posted the same video on TikTok and Upscrolled After 5 hours the video on TikTok is still being processed. On Upscrolled it already has over 350 likes. Upscrolled is the future. [image]

• @realupscrolled @realupscrolled on x

  We left you alone for 24 hours. You told someone. They told someone. They told everyone. #11 US 🇺🇸 #12 UK 🇬🇧 #14 AUS 🇦🇺 Time to scroll differently. [image]

• @guychristensen_ YourFavoriteGuy on x

  TikTok users are fleeing to a new upstart social media called UpScrolled after Larry Ellison purchased the platform. UpScrolled is founded by a Palestinian and promises no censorship and no billionaires. Yesterday, it broke into the top 15 most downloaded apps. Come join us! [ima…

• @ecmclaughlin Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin on bluesky

  Buncha organizers and political commentators are hopping onto Upscrolled, a social media platform founded by a Palestinian Australian in the wake of censorship or genocide and anti-Trump sentiment on Meta and TikTok.  —  I'm there now.  Just getting started.  [image]

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on bluesky

  I'm on UpScrolled.  Join me there!  —  Download on iOS:  —  apps.apple.com/app/upscroll...  Download on Android:  —  play.google.com/store/apps/d...  Check out my profile:  —  share.upscrolled.com/en/user/ 6ded...  [image]

• r/technology r on reddit

  TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  You cannot claim to protect free speech while supporting KOSA & other mass surveillance and censorship ID/age verification laws under the guise of “child safety”. Appreciate ur TikTok stance, but if u support laws removing anonymity online then u don't support free speech!

• @rokhanna Ro Khanna on x

  The bill to ban TikTok was a mistake. I led the effort to repeal it and as the new ranking member of the Select Committee on China, I will make sure free speech is protected.

• r/nottheonion r on reddit

  TikTok is investigating why some users can't write ‘Epstein’ in messages

• r/politics r on reddit

  TikTok is investigating why some users can't write ‘Epstein’ in messages

• r/behindthebastards r on reddit

  Tiktok is “mysteriously” not letting users type “Epstein”.  We used to mock the right for failing to understand social media & how things were preserved by it …

• r/politicsinthewild r on reddit

  Tiktok is “mysteriously” not letting users type “Epstein”.  We used to mock the right for failing to understand social media & how things were preserved by it …

• r/democrats r on reddit

  TikTok is investigating why some users can't write ‘Epstein’ in messages