California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he will probe whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content.
“It’s time to investigate,” he wrote in a post to X on Monday night. “I am launching a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring Trump-critical content.”
His post came in response to a screenshot shared by an X user showing that a message with the word ‘Epstein’ was blocked by TikTok for being “in violation of our Community Guidelines”.
Another Californian Democrat, Senator Scott Wiener, said that one of his videos about how to sue ICE had been suppressed by TikTok.
“TikTok is now state-controlled media,” Senator Wiener wrote on X on Monday. “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.”