Oracle Issues Linked to Recent TikTok Downtime

On Tuesday, there were service interruptions for TikTok customers in the United States due to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure problem. Nearly precisely one month ago, something identical occurred.

TikTok U.S. stated on Tuesday on X that American TikTok creators “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” for the second time this year. “An issue with an Oracle data centre” is the post’s description of the problem. Once more.

When similar issues with TikTok’s service occurred in January, individuals attempting to publish content critical of President Trump’s immigration crackdown conjectured that the problem was an attempt by the new, Trump-affiliated proprietors of the US-based arm of TikTok to restrict non-conservative users. This kind of user censorship was refuted by TikTok U.S.

That denial of censoring appears to have been sincere by all accounts. (I’m not sure about you, but since that outage, my TikTok stream has been filled with a lot of anti-ICE content.) Oracle, one of the stockholders in the company that currently runs TikTok U.S., appears to have been and continues to be the culprit due to server problems.

Oracle engineers are actively addressing a service disruption at their Ashburn, Virginia, facility. This was a statement from the cloud infrastructure status page. After stabilising the affected network services on Tuesday night, the team is now proceeding with additional mitigation efforts.

As users in the majority of the United States have gone to bed, Downdetector claims that reports of issues began to trickle in on Tuesday morning, seem to have peaked, and have begun to fall heading into Wednesday morning.

Data migration from servers in Singapore may have nothing to do with these problems because TikTok data for U.S. users started to be stored in the U.S. long before operations were transferred from the China-based business entity to the U.S. one.

TikTok U.S. stated on February 1 that “a significant outage caused by winter weather” was the physical reason for the prior server issue.

The unstable pattern since TikTok’s U.S. operations were reorganised into the TikTok USDS Joint Venture in January 2026, this incident is the second significant Oracle-related failure, with the first that happened in late January 2026. The outage at the Oracle data centre experienced a power outage due to a strong winter storm, which resulted in a “cascading systems failure” that took almost a week to properly fix.

The censorship concerns are these technological issues which have led to user conjecture and conspiracy theories surrounding the censoring of content, especially when it comes to politically sensitive subjects. TikTok has continuously refuted these allegations, blaming technical infrastructure for all problems.

Oracle now owns 15% of the TikTok USDS Joint Venture and is the platform’s exclusive cloud provider for user data from Americans, following a divestiture agreement to adhere to US national security regulations.