What are you accusing them of exactly? Lying? Or truthful reporting that happens to align with the interests of some American politicians?

I would hardly call FT state propaganda in any circumstance. To me true state propaganda is where the state has editorial authority over the dissemination of stories - in the west that still relatively rare.

But absolutely independent of whether FT are propaganda - it does not matter in any way to this story whether they are a 'protected class'. The outrage is that TikTok employees abused their user data in the pursuit of an agenda against targeted individuals.

Journalists are employees, if you dislike the amount of investigation being done look at the companies involved.