The upper house of Congress approved on Tuesday night, by a majority of 79 votes against 18, the proposal, which had already obtained the green light from the House of Representatives, the lower house of the US Congress.

The video platform, owned by ByteDance, is accused by US officials of allowing Beijing to spy on and manipulate 170 million users in the United States.

Shortly after the approval, US President Joe Biden announced that he would enact the text today.

If it comes into effect, ByteDance will have nine months to sell the application and obtain a possible three-month extension if the deal is in progress, otherwise it will be excluded from Apple and Google stores in the US territory.

On Saturday, TikTok said a possible ban on the platform in the United States would "violate the freedom of expression" of 170 million people and warned it was preparing a lawsuit to block the legislation.

A spokesperson for the application added that the law would "devastate seven million companies and close a platform that contributes 24 billion dollars a year to the US economy", in an email sent to the France-Presse news agency.

The possible ban on Tik Tok was one of the counterparts accepted by the Democrats to obtain Republican support for a new 61 billion dollar (57 billion euro) military aid package for Ukraine.

The package included several other Republican priorities, such as proposals that allow Washington to confiscate frozen assets from the Russian central bank to rebuild Ukraine, impose sanctions on Iran, Russia, China and criminal organizations that traffic the synthetic drug fentanyl.

At the end of March, Taiwan declared TikTok a "threat to national security", due to the "substantial control" of "hostile foreign actors" over the platform.

TikTok was already banned for public bodies, something that was extended to educational organizations, non-governmental organizations, as well as other areas and sectors of Taiwan.

On Monday, the European Commission opened an investigation into the new TikTok Lite application and threatened to suspend, as of Thursday, the functionality that rewards screen time, due to the risk of increasing dependency.

With short videos, TikTok, which has attracted more than 1.5 billion users worldwide, has been accused for several years in the United States and Europe of causing addictive behavior among teenagers.

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