Justice Department says TikTok collected user data on social issues 

As part of their argument for upholding a law recently signed by President Biden that may force the shutdown of TikTok, the Department of Justice is now alleging that the social media app is sending information on the social views of Americans to engineers in China. 

In a brief filed on Friday night reviewed by the Associated Press, the Justice Department accused TikTok and ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, of using an internal website system called Lark to allow for TikTok employees...