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Newsom Accuses TikTok of Trump Content Suppression

1/27/2026

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  • California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok of suppressing content about U.S. President Donald Trump, prompting a review of moderation practices for state-law violations.
  • The claim follows TikTok's majority US-owned joint venture (80.1% American investors, 19.9% ByteDance) to secure data and avoid a ban, approved by US and Chinese governments.
  • The joint venture was praised by Trump.
  • TikTok attributed content issues to a data center outage, causing user problems.