How TikTok became a flashpoint in the ICE firestorm
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How TikTok became a flashpoint in the ICE firestorm
""You may notice multiple bugs, slower load times, or timed-out requests, including when posting new content," the company said. "We've made significant progress in recovering our U.S. infrastructure with our U.S. data center partner," the company added on Tuesday. "However, the U.S. user experience may still have some technical issues, including when posting new content." Nicholas Smith, a spokesperson for TikTok, also said that videos of ICE's killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota this weekend are available on the platform and have been since Saturday."
"In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Meta pointed Axios to a line of its privacy policy that says, "We remove content that shares, offers, or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information." That includes personally identifiable information such as government IDs of law enforcement, military or security personnel or residential information, the sp"
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a probe into whether TikTok violated state law by censoring Trump-critical content. Users across TikTok reported being unable to upload videos about ICE over the weekend. Newsom's office declined to comment further on its investigation. A Wired report said Meta began blocking users from sharing links to ICE List, a website compiling names it says belong to Department of Homeland Security employees. Sen. Chris Murphy called the alleged TikTok censorship "at the top of the list" of threats to democracy. TikTok attributed platform problems to a major infrastructure issue from a power outage at a U.S. data center partner and reported recovery progress while warning of lingering technical issues. Meta pointed to a privacy-policy line saying it removes content sharing personally identifiable information, including government IDs and residential information.
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