TikTok disputes US claims of Chinese ties in federal court appeal

TikTok told a federal appeals court on Thursday that the US Department of Justice has misstated the social media app’s ties to China, urging the court to overturn a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US assets or face a ban.

TikTok, which has sued to overturn the law, said the Justice Department has made factual errors in the case. The department’s lawyers said last month that the app poses a national security risk by allowing the Chinese government to collect the data of Americans and covertly manipulate what content they see.