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Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?
- Benjamin Guinaudeau,
- Kylan Rutherford,
- Sol Messing,
- Molly Roberts,
- Andreu Casas,
- Keng-Chi Chang,
- Hennes Barnehl,
- Joshua A. Tucker
A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies – there’s no evidence of larger platform changes so far.

February 4, 2026