TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell U.S. lawmakers Thursday that the company has never, and would never, share data from U.S. users with China or the Chinese Communist Party.

TikTok's critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China's government by the app and prompted growing calls to ban the app by US lawmakers.

As TikTok CEO Shou Chew prepares to testify in front of Congress this week, he's turning directly to the social video app's users to gain support. Chew took to TikTok on Tuesday to announce that app now has 150 million monthly active users in the US.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share U.S. user data with the Chinese government amid growing U.

TikTok’s CEO plans to tell Congress that the video-sharing app is committed to user safety, data protection and security, and keeping the platform free from Chinese government influence

TikTok has never been more popular or more controversial. The short-form video platform does not just rule online culture. It shapes it, from the Corn Kid remix to Louis Theroux’s “Jiggle Jiggle.

TikTok's CEO will promise Congress that the company will maintain a firewall between U.S. user data and the Chinese Communist Party, an effort to stave off a ban on the app by increasingly skeptical legislators.