"In an X post on March 3, TikTok USDS said an issue with an Oracle data center is impacting some parts of the TikTok U.S. user experience, and that creators may temporarily experience lags in posting content while Oracle works to resolve the issue. In a separate X post on the same day, Oracle reported that some Oracle Cloud customers have been experiencing connection timeouts, errors, and increased latency in Ashburn due to a technical error."
"Those outages meant that some TikTok users weren't seeing view counts on their posts, and weren't able to upload their videos at all at certain points. Some users then incorrectly interpreted this as censorship, and accused the new TikTok U.S. group of limiting the reach of certain topics in the app and throttling what could be posted."
"TikTok U.S. denied that there was any deliberate interference in the process, and said snowstorms caused problems at several data centers. But the fact that this is happening again, in such a short period of time, will no doubt prompt more conspiracy theories, such as the idea that the new Trump-appointed TikTok management team is looking to limit in-app discussions."
TikTok U.S. has faced multiple significant outages following its transition from Chinese to American management. An Oracle data center issue in Ashburn caused connection problems, timeouts, and increased latency affecting user experience, with creators experiencing posting delays. Similar outages occurred during the initial transition week when extreme weather damaged Oracle data centers, preventing users from viewing counts and uploading videos. These recurring technical failures have sparked user speculation about deliberate censorship and interference by U.S. authorities, though TikTok U.S. attributes the problems to infrastructure issues rather than intentional content limitation.
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