"As a consortium of investors led by Oracle's Larry Ellison took control of TikTok's U.S. business, users accused the app of throttling videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and posts related to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Posts went viral on social media pinning the perceived suppression of content on TikTok's new bosses."
"It was conducted by eight academics examining how videos were trending during the ownership transition. Using viewership metrics across more than 100,000 videos, the researchers zeroed in on videos about ICE, Pretti, Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent last month and the keywords "Trump" and "Epstein." They compared how often TikTok recommended the content compared with non-political posts about things like food recipes and the Oscars."
A consortium led by Oracle's Larry Ellison took control of TikTok's U.S. business and users accused the app of throttling content about ICE, Jeffrey Epstein and the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti. The hashtag #TikTokCensorship trended, downloads of alternatives surged, and officials called for investigations. An analysis by eight academics using viewership metrics for over 100,000 videos found that a TikTok data-center outage coincided with dramatic drops in views across multiple topics, not only political topics. Total views plunged after the outage and then began to rebound, while limited removals or shadowbanning remain possible.
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