"On Thursday, the Chinese-owned social video app TikTok was sold to a group of Donald Trump campaign donors and allies, including Trump donors Michael Dell and Larry Ellison's Oracle. Come Monday morning, after ICE shot and killed that guy in Minneapolis, a slew of TikTok users (including our state Senator Scott Wiener) claimed that TikTok was throttling their posts criticizing ICE."
"The issue exploded into the public consciousness Monday morning when star and TikTok personality Megan Stalter claimed TikTok was censoring her anti-ICE video. I've tried for hours to upload the same video and it wouldn't show it to one person, she declared on Instagram. ABOLISH ICE! Delete TikTok! TikTok is now state-controlled media. 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 was sold to a group of Donald Trump campaign donors and allies, including Michael Dell and Oracle's Larry Ellison. After an ICE shooting in Minneapolis, multiple TikTok users reported that posts criticizing ICE or mentioning the Epstein scandal were receiving zero views. Prominent creators such as Megan Stalter and California state Senator Scott Wiener said their anti-ICE videos were being throttled. California Governor Gavin Newsom pledged a state investigation into whether the new ownership or its allies were censoring content. Wiener's video later registered views but far fewer than his typical posts, raising concerns about algorithmic suppression.
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