The Chinese-owned video app TikTok could be looking for a new home to get on the right side of U.S. officials, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal.

People familiar with the matter said the cities of London, Dublin and Singapore are on the table, although it doesn’t look like any cities in the U.S. have been put forward as a choice. The app’s parent company, ByteDance Inc., currently has its headquarters in Shanghai.

TikTok has seen a meteoric rise of late, and as of October this year had 665 million active users monthly. Around 20 million of those users are in the U.S., which has led some officials to ask if the app is a threat to national security.

In October, senators Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton said the app was a “a potential counterintelligence threat we cannot ignore” and asked the Intelligence Community to investigate. The threat concerns data collection but also the possibility of TikTok censoring content in line with the ethos of the Chinese Communist Party.

ByteDance has denied working with the Chinese government on many occasions, but to take the heat off, it made plans to set up an office in Mountain View, California, to handle data collection. Reports stated that the company was planning to hire more U.S.-based engineers, although it’s not certain how much progress has been made on that.

According to Journal, moving TikTok’s headquarters outside of China has been in the works for months, but the recent accusations by some U.S. officials has expedited that move. TikTok hasn’t confirmed if the move will go ahead, but said that for some time now it has been giving global operations more control. The company currently has around 50,000 employees globally, 400 of them in the U.S.

“We have been very clear that the best way to compete in markets around the globe is to empower local teams,” a TikTok spokesperson told the Journal. “TikTok has steadily built out its management in the countries where it operates.”

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