United Kingdom, Jan. 27 -- California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced an investigation into TikTok amid claims that the social media app is censoring content that is critical of US President Donald Trump.

A deal was concluded last week to split off the US operation of the app and American users have since started reporting problems such as seeing "zero views" on new posts.

Many users also reported being unable to see political posts, including those criticising the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday (24.01.26).

TikTok is yet to comment on accusations that the problems are linked to last week's deal and has blamed the glitches on a "major infrastructure issue" relating to a data centre power outage....