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California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok connected Monday (January 27, 2026) of suppressing contented captious of U.S. President Donald Trump arsenic helium launched a reappraisal of the platform’s contented moderation practices to find if they violated authorities law.
The measurement comes aft TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said it had finalised a woody to acceptable up a bulk U.S.-owned associated task that volition secure U.S. data, to debar a U.S. prohibition connected the abbreviated video app utilized by much than 200 cardinal Americans.
“Following TikTok’s merchantability to a Trump-aligned concern group, our bureau has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed contented critical of President Trump,” Mr. Newsom’s bureau said connected X, without elaborating.
“Gavin Newsom is launching a reappraisal of this behaviour and is calling connected the California Department of Justice to find whether it violates California law,” it added.
The White House and TikTok did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, and Mr. Trump, a Republican, person agelong been captious of each other.
Last week’s TikTok woody was a milestone for the steadfast aft years of battles with the U.S. authorities implicit Washington’s concerns astir risks to nationalist information and privateness nether Mr. Trump and erstwhile President Joe Biden.
ByteDance said TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC would unafraid U.S. idiosyncratic data, apps and algorithms done information privateness and cybersecurity measures, successful a woody praised by Trump.
With much than 16 cardinal followers connected his idiosyncratic TikTok account, Mr. Trump credited the app with helping him triumph the 2024 election.
The woody provides for American and planetary investors to clasp 80.1% of the task portion ByteDance volition ain 19.9%.
Each of the joint venture’s 3 managing investors, unreality computing elephantine Oracle, backstage equity radical Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi-based concern steadfast MGX, volition clasp a involvement of 15%.
The U.S. and Chinese governments had signed disconnected connected the deal, a White House authoritative said.
