NEW YORK -- American users of the short-video app TikTok are coming forward with allegations of data and censorship misconduct, despite the Chinese social-media platform's recent efforts to refute such claims as it faces national-security probes in Washington.
A newly surfaced consumer class action, filed last Wednesday in California, accuses TikTok, which is owned and operated by Beijing-based ByteDance, of harvesting user data without notice or consent and sending that data to China.
