Overview
- TikTok reports significant progress restoring service but warns of lingering upload, recommendation, and messaging errors.
- The company attributes the problems to a U.S. data‑center power outage that triggered a cascading systems failure and says it is working with its provider.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a review of alleged suppression of Trump‑critical content; TikTok denies censorship and says the issues were technical.
- Downdetector logged hundreds of thousands of problem reports, with many users seeing stalled feeds, failed posts, and “0” view counts.
- CNBC reproduced an error blocking DMs containing “Epstein”; the joint venture says the term is not banned and the bug is under investigation.