{"id":52666,"date":"2026-02-01T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/why-tiktoks-first-week-of-american-ownership-was-a-disaster-5\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:07:52","slug":"why-tiktoks-first-week-of-american-ownership-was-a-disaster-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/why-tiktoks-first-week-of-american-ownership-was-a-disaster-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Why TikTok\u2019s first week of American ownership was a disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it\u2019s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor<\/p>\n<p>A little more than one week ago, TikTok stepped on to US shores as a naturalized citizen. Ever since, the video app has been fighting for its life.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s calamitous emigration began on 22 January when its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/22\/tiktok-us-venture-oracle\">finalized<\/a> a deal to sell the app to a group of US investors, among them the business software giant Oracle. The app\u2019s time under Chinese ownership had been marked by a meteoric ascent to more than a billion users, which left incumbents such as Instagram looking like the next Myspace. But TikTok\u2019s short new life in the US has been less than auspicious.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/01\/tiktok-first-week\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it\u2019s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor A little more than one week ago, TikTok stepped on to US shores as a naturalized citizen. Ever since, the video app has been fighting for its life. TikTok\u2019s calamitous emigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}