The popular content sharing app TikTok is now under threat of being banned across the United States. The lower house of the country's parliament, the House of Representatives, has already begun preparing a bill to this effect, the app's authorities said in a message.

In a message sent to all TikTok users in the United States on Thursday, the app's authorities said, "A bill to ban TikTok in the United States is being prepared in the House of Representatives. Request to US TikTok users, contact your local representatives. Tell them that TikTok is your property and (if the bill is introduced in Parliament) they should vote 'no'."‘

In a report on Friday, the US daily The Washington Post said that since TikTok posted this message, public representatives' phones have been receiving a "flood" of calls.

However, the Washington Post has confirmed that the message TikTok sent is accurate. A bill is indeed being prepared in the House of Representatives.

In 2016, Chinese company ByteDance first launched the content sharing app TikTok. The app quickly became popular among internet users. In a statement in 2022, ByteDance said that the number of TikTok users worldwide had exceeded 750 million.

TikTok is also very popular among the general public in the United States. Various surveys have shown that two-thirds of the country's younger generation regularly use TikTok.

However, in 2021, TikTok was accused of stealing sensitive personal information of US citizens. That same year, Washington banned US military officers and employees from using the app. The following year, in 2022, the same order was issued to the country's government officials and employees.