President Biden has signed a invoice that will ban TikTok if its proprietor, ByteDance, doesn’t promote it inside a 12 months. The invoice, which incorporates support for Ukraine and Israel, was handed by the U.S. Senate in a 79-18 vote late Tuesday after the Home handed it with overwhelming majority over the weekend.

The invoice provides ByteDance 9 months to divest TikTok, with a 90-day extension accessible, to finish the deal. If ByteDance doesn’t promote TikTok, it will turn into unlawful for app shops to distribute the app within the U.S.

In an emailed assertion to TechCrunch, TikTok stated it will problem the “unconstitutional legislation” in courtroom.

“We imagine the information and the legislation are clearly on our facet, and we are going to in the end prevail,” the assertion reads. “The very fact is, we’ve invested billions of {dollars} to maintain U.S. knowledge secure and our platform free from exterior affect and manipulation. This ban would devastate 7 million companies and silence 170 million People. As we proceed to problem this unconstitutional ban, we are going to proceed investing and innovating to make sure TikTok stays an area the place People of all walks of life can safely come to share their experiences, discover pleasure, and be impressed.”

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew shared his personal video response on Wednesday, calling the information “a disappointing second” and stating that TikTok “will maintain preventing.”

Again in March, the Home handed the same standalone invoice to ban TikTok or power its sale inside six-months time, however the Senate by no means took that invoice up. This time, the Home packaged the TikTok invoice with international support to U.S. allies, which primarily pressured the Senate to decide.

TikTok has spent the previous few months arguing that its platform is crucial for creators and small companies in america. A couple of weeks in the past, the corporate launched an financial influence report revealing that TikTok generated $14.7 billion for small to mid-sized corporations within the U.S.