Earlier this week, George Wang, staff attorney at the Knight Institute, joined a panel of First Amendment experts organized by Free Press. They discussed what’s next for TikTok ahead of a January 19 divestiture deadline. 

Wang notes that the ban is “wildly troubling because it allows the government to ban a popular communications platform used by millions of Americans every day, which poses a serious threat to those Americans’ First Amendment rights.” And he goes on to explain why the recent appeals court ruling upholding the ban did not adequately address the law’s profound impact on those users’ interests in expressing themselves and engaging with the people and communities they care about on the social media platform of their choice.

Watch “Breaking Down the TikTok Ban: Social Media & the First Amendment” below.