Just days after a group of mainly American investors approved by President Donald Trump took over control of TikTok's U.S. operations, some users now say the app is censoring and limiting their content, including posts and messages about Jeffrey Epstein and the shooting deaths of U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis.

One content creator says his U.S.-based followers couldn't

access his post about the shooting death of Rene Good. So this is how it should appear.

The latest video under my three pinned videos is the ice shooting analysis. But this is what my page

looks like according to people who message me. And even weirder, this is how it appears in their watch history, a blank square.

The red X mark is just them pointing it out to me.

And California state senator Scott Weiner said TikTok wouldn't let him share this post about ICE for several hours.

I am advancing a bill now to say that in California, it's not going to be just local and

state law enforcement who can be sued if they violate your rights, but federal agents can as well.

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new state investigation to determine whether TikTok

is violating state law by censoring content critical of President Trump.

The company issued a statement today saying it had suffered a cascading systems failure that had caused multiple bugs on the platform after a power outage at one of its U.S. data centers.

For more, we're joined by tech journalist Jacob Ward, host of the

Rip Current podcast. Welcome back to the NewsHour, Jacob. Hey, Jeff. Great to be with you. So you have a lot of

politically engaged users now saying they feel censored on TikTok, videos getting zero views, their reach

suddenly disappearing. Based on your reporting, what is going on here?

Well, I mean, I think on the one hand, it's important to just remember in the context of

American public discourse, right, that the way we communicate with one another is controlled

by a handful of private companies. And as a result, we don't get to know. So, Jeff, we don't

really know.

Is there some sort of censorship going on here? Or is this, as TikTok's new ownership says,

a cascading failure that originated from one of its data centers? What I can say is that it seems

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