The House has passed a bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell.

Lawmakers are concerned the company’s current ownership structure is beholden to the Chinese government and poses a U.S. national security threat.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman accuses Washington of resorting to political tools when U.S. businesses fail to compete.

The House bill now goes to the Senate, where its prospects are unclear.

Sen. Mark Warner, (D) Virginia, told reporters about his concerns with the spread of misinformation on TikTok.

“We don’t want the creativity to go away. We don’t want the people to make a living as social influencers to go away. It’s just at the end of the day, ought to be not have that data or that, the ability to manipulate, news. I mean, TikTok is used as a news source by huge numbers of young people. Do we really want, in an age of AI, that kind of power given to an adversarial nation?” Warner said.

Meanwhile, Sen. Thom Tillis, (R) North Carolina, told reporters Americans who use TikTok should be more concerned about the information they’re interacting with on the platform.

“This isn’t about shutting down TikTok. This is about making sure that that very information that many of them are using to interact on it could be shared with the Chinese Communist Party. They should view this as a threat, rather that the threat of their information being abused by the Chinese Communist Party should be their concern, not that we intend to shut down TikTok. I don’t think that that’s going to happen. And I think it’s disingenuous of the TikTok leadership to concern people,” Tillis said.

TikTok has more than 170 million American users and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd. A TikTok spokesman is criticizing Congress for being too secretive.