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California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he is ordering a review of whether TikTok under its new owners has been suppressing content critical of Donald Trump.
Newsom wrote on X on Monday, “It’s time to investigate. I am launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.”
His spokesman confirmed the review. His press office said that 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.”
A TikTok spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.
Over the weekend, users of TikTok complained that the platform suppressed videos about the shooting of Alex Pretti by a federal agent in Minneapolis. TikTok’s new U.S. owners said a powr outage occurred at one of its U.S. data center sites.
Last week, the social media giant announced a joint venture to establish an American entity. The deal came after Congress passed a law requiring China’s ByteDance to divest ownership of TikTok or face a ban on U.S. app stores.
The three managing investors in the JV include Silver Lake, Oracle and MGX, each holding 15%, along with Dell Family Office, the investment firm of Michael Dell, founder, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies; Vastmere Strategic Investments, an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group; Alpha Wave Partners; Revolution; Merritt Way, controlled and managed by partners of Dragoneer; Via Nova, an affiliate of General Atlantic; Virgo LI Inc., investment arm of a foundation established by Yuri and Julia Milner in support of science; and NJJ Capital, the family office of Xavier Niel, a French entrepreneur and pioneer in telecommunications. ByteDance retains 19.9% of the joint venture.
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