Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., said Sunday that Americans should be wary of their use of the social media app TikTok. He encouraged deleting the app due to privacy concerns and China's unclear intentions.

"I recognize, particularly as a younger member of Congress, this will make me very unpopular with your teenagers and many others," Gallagher said on CNN's "State of the Union.

"The question we have to ask is whether we want to give the [Chinese Communist Party CCP] the ability to track our location, track what websites we visit even when we're not using the TikTok app itself and, increasingly, since a large percentage of Americans use TikTok to get their news, whether we want them to have the ability to selectively edit that news," Gallagher said.

"The ability to edit the news I think is a massive tool and weapon that we don't want to give the CCP," Gallagher said.

TikTok is a short-form video hosting service that has clips that last between 15 seconds and 10 minutes. It launched in 2016 and is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. TikTok reportedly has over 138 million active U.S. users.

In November, the head of the FBI said the bureau has "national security concerns" about TikTok, which involved the Chinese government using the app to influence American users through the content they watch.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., told Australia's Sydney Morning Herald in October that "If your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok ... the ability for China to have undue influence is a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict."

The Senate voted Wednesday to ban TikTok on government-issued phones due to security concerns.