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The US Justice Department alleges that TikTok solicited user opinions on divisive issues and then shared them with ByteDance engineers in China.
According to AP, in documents filed with the federal appeals court in Washington on July 26, government lawyers said that TikTok US employees used an internal exchange system called Lark to send sensitive data about US users, including issues such as abortion or religion, to Beijing-based ByteDance. The data was stored on servers in China and could be accessed by ByteDance employees there.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) warned that the Lark tool has the ability to "manipulate hidden content". That means the algorithm can be designed to shape the content that US users receive, "thereby promoting malign influence activities, enhancing efforts to undermine faith in democracy, and exacerbating social divisions", according to the document.
The DOJ says Lark is the reason federal officials don't believe Project Texas — TikTok's $1.5 billion plan to store US user data on Oracle servers — is enough to protect against national security concerns.
"Nothing in the document changes the fact that the Constitution is on our side. The TikTok ban would silence the voices of 170 million Americans in violation of the First Amendment. As we have said, the government has never provided evidence to support its claims, even when Congress passed this unconstitutional law. We are confident that we will prevail in court," TikTok spokesperson Alex Haurek said on July 27.
The court filing is the next step in the US government’s legal battle with the social media platform, which has more than 170 million users in the US. Under a law signed by President Joe Biden in April, TikTok faces a ban in the coming months unless it agrees to sell itself and sever ties with ByteDance.
In late May, TikTok and its parent company filed a lawsuit, denying allegations that the platform may have shared U.S. user data with China or otherwise compromised national security. TikTok argued that the U.S. government had failed to provide official evidence that any of these actions had occurred.
The trial is scheduled to take place in September.
TB (according to VnExpress)
