TikTok apologizes after being accused of censoring black users

TikTok apologized on Monday after complaints that posts with the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd were marked with zero views on the popular short-video app.

Users accused TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd., of censoring black voices during protests that erupted across the U.S. after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

Some TikTok users changed their profile pictures to a raised black fist symbolizing black power, while urging others to unfollow users who didn’t support the protest over what one popular TikTok user called “the unfair censorship of black creators.”