An avid supporter of TikTok — a controversial social media app that is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese Communist Party-controlled company — threatened to murder Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) this week over a bill in the U.S. Senate that would force the sale of the company or else it will be banned in the U.S.
“This is a voicemail my office received last night,” Tillis posted on X. “TikTok’s misinformation campaign is pushing people to call their members of Congress, and callers like this who communicate threats against elected officials could be committing a federal crime.”
“The Communist-Chinese aligned company is proving just how dangerous their current ownership is,” Tillis added. “Great work, TikTok.”
The company has repeatedly sent out alerts to all of its users encouraging them to call members of Congress and pressure them into not passing the bill. The U.S. House of…
