Jonquilyn Hill

Since the handoff, things aren't going great.

Oh, we're definitely being censored slash silenced.

It turns out lots of people miss their corporate Chinese overlords.

And that's not the only trouble at American TikTok.

I'm Jonquan Hill, sitting in the host chair.

The trials of TikTok coming up on Today Explained from Vox.

All right.

So American TikTok has new owners now.

And almost immediately after they took over, people started reporting issues with the app.

I want to start with the big one.

People said that they were being censored.

What's going on there and what are the complaints?

Insanely, you now cannot use the word Epstein in TikTok DMs and are immediately flagged for community violation.

Is there a way for us to actually know?

I mean, people are pretty skeptical of TikTok right now.

California Governor Gavin Newsom says he's going to investigate TikTok censorship.

Is there anything to that?

Or is he just, you know, someone with 2028 on the brain?

I think something that's poured gas on this is something that you mentioned, which is who these new owners are.

Tell us about them.