Justice Department accuses TikTok of gathering American user data on social issues like abortion, gun control

The Justice Department alleges TikTok is gathering information on U.S. users and their views on social issues, including gun control, abortion and religion, to send to engineers in China.

According to documents filed with the federal appeals court in Washington, the DOJ claims TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, used Lark, an internal web-suite system, to allow TikTok employees to talk directly with ByteDance engineers in China, the Associated Press reported.

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