Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok USDS Joint Venture, wrote to me in an email that the app is being run as it was before and that American users will “continue to have the same experience they already know and love.” The company has blamed the issues on a power outage at one of its data centers, which it said caused a “cascading” systems failure affecting all types of content (not just posts about Minnesota). The data center in question is operated by Oracle, which has managed TikTok’s U.S. user data since 2022. The company was still working to fix some of the bugs as of today. Separately, the company said that there is no rule against saying Epstein and that this glitch was caused by a technical issue with its safety systems. (When I sent the word Epstein to my fiancé at 8 yesterday morning, it went through fine.)