US TikTok is now a MAGA asset

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US TikTok is now called “TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC”. The three ‘big players’ are Oracle a.k.a. tech billionaire Larry Ellison (a longtime Dump [deleted] because Ellison wants a Technocracy); Silver Lake a.k.a. tech billionaire Egon Durban; and MGX a.k.a. an Abu Dhabi AI -> chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE’s ruling family. Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX each own about 15 % of the new entity while ByteDance a.k.a. tech billionaires Zhang Yiming, Arthur Dantchik, Neil Shen and millionsaire Liang Rubo keeps about 19.9 %. Other investors include the family office of billionaire Michael Dell. As a reminder Dump personally backed the deal and signed executive actions that kept TikTok from being banned outright. All these people I named are big Dump supporters and all are committed to technocratic control over you.

Now, with that said, the Terms of Service expands what data its app can collect (including location, gender, citizenship status, AI interactions, and other personal information) and goes from being controlled by a foreign company to being run by an American-majority group of technocrats and billionaires who are all bought in to Ellison’s technocratic world order. Users are now experiencing constant political censorship, and feel like the “old TikTok” is gone. They’re starting to flee in droves, as they should.

Conservatives. Did you vote for a cabal of wealthy men to know everything about you? Because this is what this is.

- Doc

[Some Schmo]

MAGAtes are so determined to be stupid, they'll convince themselves this is a good thing.

As long as it's retarded, MAGAtes love it, whatever "it" is.

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In light of who now owns TikTok, the latest development to turn up hardly seems surprising:

TikTok blocks Epstein mentions and anti-Trump videos, users claim

Alleged censorship comes after investors loyal to Trump take over social media platform

Anthony Cuthbertson
Tuesday 27 January 2026 13:03 EST


TikTok users in the US have reported being unable to write the word ‘Epstein’ in messages amid accusations that the social media platform is suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump.

The issues come less than a week after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, was forced to divest a majority stake in its US operations to a group of investors loyal to President Trump, who was a close associate with the late convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Since the takeover, TikTok users have also claimed that videos about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and protests in Minneapolis have also been censored.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he will probe whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content.

“It’s time to investigate,” he wrote in a post to X on Monday night. “I am launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.”

His post came in response to a screenshot shared by an X user showing that a message with the word ‘Epstein’ was blocked by TikTok for being “in violation of our Community Guidelines”.

Another Californian Democrat, Senator Scott Wiener, said that one of his videos about how to sue ICE had been suppressed by TikTok.

“TikTok is now state-controlled media,” Senator Wiener wrote on X on Monday. “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.”

TikTok has attributed the recent issues with its platform to a “major infrastructure” problem brought about by a power outage at one of its US data centres.

“While the network has been recovered, the outage caused a cascading systems failure that we’ve been working to resolve together with our data center partner,” a company statement said.

“You may notice multiple bugs, slower load times, or timed-out requests, including when posting new content. Creators may temporarily see ‘O’ views or likes on videos, and your earnings may look like they’re missing. This is a display error caused by server timeouts.”

The Independent has reached out to TikTok for further information about specific mentions of ‘Epstein’ or ‘ICE’, and what influence the new ownership will have on content moderation decisions going forward.

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ti ... 08309.html

The ‘major infrastructure’ problem claimed to be the cause for these issues appears to be who owns it now.

[Res Ipsa]

Thank God #bamarush is unaffected.