This guy is absolutely a grifter and playing both sides so he ends up with “the winning team”, don’t fucking trust his ass.
I mean what did you expect from an organization called “TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC”? It literally has “US Digital Service” in it’s name.
In before he’s on another right wing podcast apologising and saying it’s false.
The crazy thing is that was on HIS OWN PODCAST
newsom has a pondcast?
Not really. There is a right wing podcast with a rotating host of fascists and Newsom as the only guest where they just dog walk him.
Gavin Newsom was enthusiastically in favor of forcing the sale of TikTok to US-aligned billionaires under Joe Biden.
Wonder what changed.
There’s definitely some “our team, their team” going on, but this isn’t really the same thing.
“Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump”
This is not a criticism of the sale itself, but of reported censorship after the sale. Make no mistake, Newsom is still on the side of the billionaires. He just wants the billionaires to return to their progressive facade.
I’m pretty sure under Biden, it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control, not bringing it under US billionaires specifically. Now it’s a political instrument of corruption and control, which is something different.
It was the exact same motivation under Biden, they just had the self-awareness to know that they needed to pretend.
it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control
TikTok was controlled by a private company based out of Singapore, with investments from a host of international funds including both the US and China.
The “China is controlling our internet” narrative was always bullshit fear-mongering, fully disjoined from the actual business structure. What TikTok enjoyed that Facebook and YouTube and Reddit did not was a sufficient distance from US policymakers such that TikTok’s policies weren’t dictated by Western oligarchs.
not bringing it under US billionaires specifically
That’s exactly what Biden (and then Trump)'s forced sale intended. Bring the US branch of TikTok under American control by awarding it to exclusively American financial interests.
As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.
Likely the consortium that currently bought TikTok does not agree with his political bias, where the Biden one did.
Same with Covid shots, Biden and Kamala were essentially saying that they would not or would hesitate to take “Trump’s Covid vaccine.” Then, a month later they won, and then had no problem pushing it onto everyone because it was no longer “Trump’s Vaccine,” buy their own administration’s. I can’t be the only one that remmebers that.
I was barely paying attention back then, things didn’t seem so dire at the time.
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Well, why did you think they forced bytedance to sell the US arm to a joint venture controlled by his chums?
Apple forced an update on iphones that auto-updated TikTok, which now has mandatory reporting of your geolocation (including SIM card and GPS info). This geolocation sharing can’t be turned off in Settings like all other apps. It is greyed out for TikTok.
You think this is all coincidental?
No way, for real?
Have a link for that? That is crazy if true.
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-privacy-policy-update-january-2026/
Side note: tomsguide is now horrifically hard to read.
Man, I really hope TilTok crashes and burns now. It’d be so fuckin funny if they went through this entire acquisition to have users completely abandon it.
How the fuck is that even legal to force opt in on location.
Google has gotten in a lot of shit for not properly letting people control that before and delete histories.
“Legal” is now (more) dependant on political loyalty than it is actual jurisprudence.
Legal is whatever the fascist party leadership decrees.
“Apple”
“Forced”No, TikTok pushed out an update and you had auto updates turned on.
Go to Settings > Apps > App Store to turn this setting off.
More info here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102629
There’s probably something similar on Android devices as well.
I’ve seen plenty of tweets reporting that even remotely using the word Epstein is enough for you flagged.
That must be a real headache for anyone who knows someone with the last name Epstein, even before you get to people who have that name themselves.
It’s royally stupid.
That’s the name of a huge consulting firm that my company works with. I’ve been hearing it for years. It’s weird every time.
I saw it once and now I can’t unsee it.
No shit Sherlock. Were solid into this as normal now.
Remember when democrat related keywords were filtered January 2025? Yeah, “oopsies” said Meta.
You have any legal teeth of that accusation, Newsome? Otherwise it’s in the ignore bin with all the other grievances.
it’s in the ignore bin with all the other grievances
2026 has been a long year.
Tired of the lies yet?
Are someone’s TikToks not trending anymore? 😆
There, there little guy. Why don’t you stand up your own blue sky server?
As a millionaire living my best life, I’m giving $30k to the first 20 people who message me ‘grace.’ I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden.
And now because trump et al have been screaming for years that other tech companies have been suppressing right wing content the conservatives will claim turnabout is fair play or some other bullshit.
Also almost 1 in 3 americans is using that brain rot? We’re fucked.
And I’m going to bring the NEW OWNERS of the App on my Podcast to DEFEND this Situation with ZERO Pushback!
-ALSO Gavin Newsom!
Let’s just share the news please.
Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign paying to insert his name in headlines should not be shared.
No shit Genius! China is 100% more democratic country than USA right now. R.I.P. USA!
Okay, I get it that many people are not happy with the current administration but to claim what you just claim tells me that you know nothing of China’s actual political structure and how it relates to its citizens. The USA as a whole, is still wah better than. The CCP.
