Megan Stalter deletes TikTok after claiming platform restricts ICE content

Megan Stalter deletes TikTok after claiming platform restricts ICE content

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hacker Star Megan Stalter deleted her Tik Tok Claims the app is censoring her account after she made a post critical of the app us Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

actors and comedians She wrote in a post on Instagram that she would be downloading the video and leaving because the app was under “new ownership and we are being fully censored and monitored.”

“Even if I try to trick the page by making it look like a comedy video, I can’t upload anything about ICE. Let’s delete the app, love you,” she wrote.

in a statement Post to their X account On Monday, the TikTok USDS joint venture said: “We have been working since yesterday to restore our services due to a U.S. data center outage that affected TikTok and other applications we operate. We are working with our data center partners to stabilize our services. We apologize for this outage and hope to resolve it soon.”

On Wednesday, they gave an update on the outage and said they were “continuing to address significant infrastructure issues caused by the outage.”

“While the network has been restored, the outage resulted in a cascading system failure that we have been working with our data center partners to resolve,” TikTok wrote, adding that users may experience “multiple errors, slow load times, or request timeouts, including when posting new content.”

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“Creators may temporarily see a video with ‘0’ views or likes, and your earnings may appear to disappear. This is a display error due to server timeouts; your actual data and engagement are safe,” they added.

independent Representatives for Stalter and TikTok have been contacted for comment.

last week, TikTok owner ByteDance finalizes joint deal for U.S. holdings Continue to operate in the United States, which allows it to “Operating with clear safeguards to protect national security”.

The deal ends years of uncertainty over the future of social media platforms in the countryU.S. officials previously claimed that the algorithm was Vulnerable to manipulation by Chinese authoritiesalthough there is no evidence that China has attempted to do so.

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Protests against ICE Then it spread all over the country Federal immigration agent shot to death Two people have died in Minneapolis this month. On January 7, police shot and killed Renée Nicole Good, 37, mother of threeas she sits behind the wheel of a car. Alex PrettyOn January 24, a 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed after a conflict between agents and civilians escalated.

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In both cases, Donald Trump administration claims It has been disputed that the agents acted in self-defense Protesters cite video of incident.

Protests against ICE have spread across the country after federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis this month
Protests against ICE have spread across the country after federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis this month (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. all rights reserved.)

Stalter isn’t the only one claiming her videos on ICE were censored. Musician Billie Eilish took to her Instagram to repost a video originally posted on TikTok by her brother and collaborator Finneas, writing: “TikTok is silencing people by the way.”

“You’ve been telling us for 30 years that our kids have to die so we can legally carry weapons across America,” Finnis said in the video, which he said had zero views.

As of this writing, Finneas’ video has 1.4 million views, but comments mentioned the video had “glitches.”