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TikTok Apologizes for Outages Amid Censorship Speculations

1/27/2026

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TikTok apologized for U.S. service disruptions over the weekend after more than 600,000 user reports.
Users experienced repeated videos in the For You feed and posts with no views.
The TikTok USDS Joint Venture attributed the outages to a power outage at a U.S. data center and is working to resolve it.
Speculation about censorship related to protests in Minneapolis emerged.
Concerns about TikTok's updated privacy policy emerged during disruptions.

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Story summary

TikTok apologized for U.S. service disruptions over the weekend after more than 600,000 user reports.
Users experienced repeated videos in the For You feed and posts with no views.
The TikTok USDS Joint Venture attributed the outages to a power outage at a U.S. data center and is working to resolve it.
Speculation about censorship related to protests in Minneapolis emerged.
Concerns about TikTok's updated privacy policy emerged during disruptions.