The first few days of TikTok’s new ownership have been chaotic.
Over the weekend, TikTok ownership changed hands from Chinese company ByteDance to a consortium of majority American companies known as TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. As ownership transitioned, users almost immediately experienced technical issues, with thousands of outages reported on DownDetector and creators saying their monetization tools disappeared.
A new terms of service greeted users on January 23, with Wired reporting the now U.S.-owned app could potentially be collecting more data about its users than previous ownership, including precise location tracking. And the news creators who were struggling with the platform’s inconsistent moderation worried the app’s issues suggested it was adopting an even more rigid stance on moderating content.
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