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Oracle says the TikTok outage was caused by a power outage at its data center due to a winter cyclone last weekend.

California Governor Newsom has initiated a probe into allegations that the platform is withholding critical material about Trump after a change in ownership.

The new partnership gives U.S. sponsors 80.1% of the controlling rights, while ByteDance retains 19.9% .

The outages affecting TikTok users across the U.S. are due to climate conditions in the data warehouse overseen by Oracle, the company announced Tuesday. The explanation came amid claims by a senior California official that the resource was covering up publications questioning the figure of President Donald Trump. Michael Egbert, a spokesman for Oracle, confirmed that the storm temporarily cut power to one of the company’s server facilities over the weekend. One of our data centers experienced a temporary power outage this weekend due to a weather event that affected TikTok, Egbert wrote in an email to Reuters.

Severe winter weather affected much of the country in those days.

Technical problems reported by users followed the power outage, Egbert said. The Oracle and TikTok groups are making efforts to resolve the problems as soon as possible, he added.

TikTok

in a statement X notified that users may still experience service disruptions, especially when trying to download fresh content.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that his office will investigate whether TikTok is violating state regulations on how it handles messages from users. His office said it began receiving signals and found evidence that material questioning Trump was not being displayed to the public.

After TickTock

was taken over by a Trump-affiliated business entity, our office received reports and independent evidence that material critical of President Trump

was being withheld, the governor’s office said in a statement.

Since the handover of TikTok to a Trump-affiliated group, our office has received calls and self-reported harassment of content critical of President Trump.

Last week, Chinese company ByteDance, the creator of TikTok, finalized a new business structure. Under this agreement, the U.S. sponsors now have dominant control over a combined entity called TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. This entity will be responsible for data security for the video platform, which is used daily by more than 200 million Americans. Trump has publicly endorsed the agreement.

the formed joint venture denies allegations of censorship. Officials say it’s incorrect to attribute the difficulties to anything other than technical failures.

Three key investors have received equal shares in the new project. Oracle, a cloud solution provider, owns 15% . Silver Lake, a private investment fund, also controls 15% . An Abu Dhabi-based investment group called MGX rounds out the top three with another fifteen percent stake. In total, U.S. and international investors hold 80.1 percent of the business, while ByteDance retains 19.9 percent.

On Tuesday, the joint venture reported success in restoring normal operations to U.S. facilities with the support of its data center partner. However, they warned that users may still experience outages, especially when trying to share new videos or posts. Trump, whose personal TikTok account is followed by more than 16 million people, said the platform played a significant role in his victory in the 2024 election.

The agreement marks an important milestone for TikTok after years of standoffs with US authorities. The Trump and Biden administrations raised concerns about potential threats to national security and privacy when the app was under Chinese control.

However, user complaints about content restrictions have increased since the change in ownership. A number of people noted that certain words stopped working in searches or posts. Some say the word “Epstein” is blocked. Others say that publications about the actions of migration services are disappearing from view.