California governor alleges TikTok is suppressing content critical of Trump

California Governor Gavin Newsom accused TikTok on Monday of suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump as he launched a review to decide if its content moderation practices violated state law, while the platform cited a systems failure.

Newsom’s statement ‌came after ‌TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, last week finalized a deal to set up a majority U.S.-owned joint venture that will secure U.S. data, to ‌avert a ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans.