In recent years, TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the United States, with more than 150 million users, and the most popular smartphone app in the United States. Despite its widespread popularity in the United States, TikTok has come under regulatory scrutiny due to data security concerns relating to its Chinese parent, ByteDance, and the United States government has even threatened to ban the TikTok app nationally if ByteDance does not sell the app.