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Last Updated: 24.06.2025 00:23
Something disturbing has happened to TikTok since Trump was voted in.
What used to be a fun video-sharing app for the whole world (except China and India) is now effectively two separate apps: one version just for Americans, and the regular app for the rest of the world.
It also looks like dozens of politicians may have had prior knowledge of a secret deal, given how much they suddenly invested in Meta in the lead-up to the “ban”. If true, that’s illegal insider trading on a huge scale.
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But it goes even further than that. The US version is now, in effect, “TrumpTok”. While the rest of the world can readily search for videos that are saying/showing controversial things about Trump (e.g., “US election rigged” or “Trump and young girl”), those searches in the US app draw a blank, with the message: “No results found.”
Comparison of searches in USA and UK
it looks like the apparent “ban” was simply a period of TikTok going down in the USA while it was being transferred to Meta-controlled servers in Utah. It seems that Meta now owns US TikTok, though no announcement has been made — just some guff about Donald Trump somehow “saving” TikTok.
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So now there are fewer Americans appearing on the regular version used outside the USA, while at the same time fewer non-Americans are appearing on the US version. This means that American users aren’t being so exposed to foreign perceptions of America. It’s reminiscent of the Great Firewall of China.