TikTok CEO shares message for Joe Biden and Congress after president signs bill into law that will force the sale or ban of the popular app

The CEO of TikTok challenged Joe Biden and Congress after federal officials pushed through legislation that could ban his app in the U.S.

On Wednesday, President Biden signed a law that forces TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance to either divest from the social media platform in one year or face a ban in the U.S. 

But shortly after the potential ban was signed into law, TikTok CEO Shou Chew posted a video on the social media app defiantly claiming 'Rest assured, we aren't going anywhere.'

'As you may have heard Congress passed a bill that the president signed into law that is designed to ban TikTok in the United States,' Chew said.

'That will take TikTok away from you and 170 million Americans who find community and connection on our platform.'

'Make no mistake, this is a ban. A ban on TikTok and a ban on you and your voice.'

President Joe Biden spoke after signing the potential TikTok ban saying the law will make U.S. and the world safer 

'Politicians may say otherwise but don't get confused. Many who sponsored the bill admit a TikTok ban is the ultimate goal.' 

Chew slammed the new law, claiming that 'the facts and the Constitution are on our side.' 

In a statement, a TikTok spokesperson told DailyMail.com that they will take the law to court.

'This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail.' 

But the House China Select Committee has said that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials through ByteDance are using TikTok to spy on its U.S. users' locations and dictate its algorithm to conduct influence campaigns, making it a national security threat.

The committee - comprised of nearly an equal amount of Republicans and Democrats - spent a year mulling the dangers posed by the app and the implications of outlawing it in the U.S. 

Ultimately, the lawmakers struck a consensus that the dangers posed by TikTok were too great, and they moved swiftly to split it from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.   

The bill's first iteration called specifically designated ByteDance and TikTok as foreign adversary-controlled applications. 

'The Chinese Communist Party, and its leader Xi Jinping have their hands deep in the inner workings of the company,' Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., the chair of the China Select Committee, warned in early March. 

It was quickly passed by the House just over a week after it was introduced but later hit roadblocks in the Senate.

The upper chamber wanted to extend the period that ByteDance had to divest from 165 days.

So the House slightly modified the bill and passed a new version of it on Saturday.

Tuesday evening, the Senate voted to pass that bill 79-18. 

That version of the legislation, which Biden signed into law Wednesday, gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok and a possible three-month extension if a sale is in progress. 

'This is a good day for America. It's a good day Europe,' Biden said after signing it into law. 'It's going to make America safer. It's going to make the world safer.' 

This week, FBI Director Christopher Wray also warned of the app's threats.

'TikTok, for us, represents a national security concern. The reason I say that is TikTok's parent company is beholden to the Chinese government,' Wray told NBC Nightly News' Lester Holt.

The FBI Director argued that TikTok users should wake up to 'the power, the access, the capability, the control that TikTok has,' and how that translates not only to ByteDance, but to the 'Chinese intelligence services.'

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that TikTok poses a 'national security concern', particularly due to its Chinese-based parent company's data farming capabilities 

TikTok users and advocates conducted demonstrations on Capitol Hill last month advocating for lawmakers to vote against the potential ban

The CEO's ominous warning is the latest aggressive atactic employed by the company that had tried for months to lobby against the bill which became law Wednesday. 

Previously, TikTok sent out notifications to its users and suggested they call their lawmakers to advocate against the bill. This flooded the phone lines on Capitol Hill with thousands of calls. 

Some callers even made death threats to lawmakers, with one threatening to shoot Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., before vowing to cut him into pieces.

'Okay listen. If you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,' the voice of a child can be heard saying in between giggles in a recording of the call to Tillis' office.

'That's people's job and that's my only entertainment,' the call went on. 'Anyways, I'll shoot you and find you and cut you into pieces.'

Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told DailyMail.com 'China's position on this question is clear. This bill puts the US on the wrong side of the principles of fair competition and international trade rules.'

TikTok CEO Shou Chew has said the bill would ban the app, indicating that ByteDance has no intentions to divest from the popular video-sharing platform

'If 'national security' can be abused to bring down other countries' competitive companies, there would be no fairness or justice at all.'

'It is sheer robbers' logic to try every means to snatch from others all the good things that they have.' 

'How the US has handled TikTok enables the world to see clearly whether the US's 'rules' and 'order' serve the whole world or only the US.'