The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity last week.

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TikTok experienced widespread service disruptions affecting comments, the For You page, and search functionality, which the company attributed to a power outage at a U.S. data center. The timing coincided with the recent establishment of TikTok USDS Joint Venture, where ByteDance's ownership dropped below 20%, and ongoing civil unrest in Minneapolis. While some users suspected government censorship or issues related to the ownership transition, TikTok maintains the problems stemmed from infrastructure failures during severe winter storms that caused over a million power outages nationwide.

TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a U.S. data center