TikTok’s US Arm Crashes Day After Oracle & Co Walk In Like They Own It
KEY POINTS
- •TikTok's US division experienced outages starting early Sunday due to a power failure at a data center.
- •Oracle and partners had just recently taken control of TikTok’s US operations before these issues began.
- •Rumors about censoring topics like Jeffrey Epstein were false, despite some officials sharing misinformation.
Just days after Oracle & Co modestly took over TikTok's US operations, Sunday morning greeted users with a tech meltdown caused by a mysterious power outage in an unnamed data center. This event snowballed into a 'cascading systems failure'—that’s corporate jargon for 'everything broke, and we’re guessing why.' Suddenly, TikTok's famed 'For You' feed turned into an unreliable ghost town, comments behaved like they had stage fright, and uploading videos became a quest akin to climbing Everest barefoot. Meanwhile, wild rumors that TikTok banned 'Epstein' in DMs were debunked, though even California’s governor couldn’t resist throwing misinformation into the fire. So if you were hoping for TikTok’s smooth sail into new ownership glory, keep dreaming—this ship’s still figuring out where the power switch is.
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TikTok’s US ownership reboot off to a spectacular start: blackout, code collapse, and conspiracy rumors, but hey, at least 'Epstein' chat’s still live.
Congrats TikTok US: your new owners promised a fresh start but delivered an all-you-can-lose buffet of bugs and outages instead.
If TikTok’s 'For You' page was a roller coaster, right now it’s just stuck upside down in a power outage tunnel.
Source: Theverge | Published: 1/27/2026 | Author: Richard Lawler
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