California Probes TikTok Over Claims It Suppressed Anti-Trump Content. California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused TikTok of suppressing content critical of President Donald Trump and has launched a legal review into whether the platform violated state law. The move comes just days after TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, finalized a deal creating a majority US-owned joint venture to safeguard American user data and avoid a nationwide ban. The agreement was publicly praised by Trump. Newsom's office says it received reports — and independently verified cases — of content critical of Trump being limited following the deal, though no specific examples were given. He has asked California's Department of Justice to investigate. TikTok denies political interference, blaming the issue on a data-center power outage that caused a cascading systems failure, leading to posting glitches and delayed content. The dispute adds fresh tension to the long-running rivalry between Newsom and Trump and raises new questions about political influence, platform transparency, and free expression as TikTok reshapes its US ownership structure.