TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners
WIRED • • business
Key Points:
- TikTok is experiencing a widespread service outage in the US, affecting millions of users shortly after transferring control of its American business to majority-US investors, with the company attributing the disruption to a power outage at a US data center.
- Users reported issues uploading videos and reduced engagement, leading to speculation about possible political content suppression, particularly related to recent federal immigration operations, which TikTok has denied, calling the problems purely technical.
- The outage has drawn attention from public figures like Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck and Senator Chris Murphy, who expressed concerns about potential censorship and threats to democracy, though TikTok maintains it is working to restore services without political interference.
- TikTok's new US entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, established to
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