The outage came just days after ByteDance finalized a deal for a new U.S.-based ownership joint venture, with Oracle as one of its main leaders.

TikTok is pointing to the fallout of power outages at one of its data centers to explain recent reports of censorship and glitches impacting users.

TikTok’s new American-led operation is facing its first major trust crisis after a sweeping outage scrambled feeds, tanked views and coincided with a wave of politically charged posts. The company insists the chaos was the result of data center failures,

After the US version of TikTok was transferred to new owners, users found that they couldn't post videos criticizing ICE. TikTok blames the issues on a power outage at a US data center.

TikTok users saw widespread glitches this weekend, after TikTok said a power outage caused issues at a data center. The glitches led to claims of censorship.

For the past couple of days, TikTok has been facing a system outage for users in the US. The failure left users unable to upload videos, load comments, or access their usual For You Page. Many people suspected that the platform’s US ownership change,