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Every Screen on the Planet
- Author
- Emily Baker-White
- Narrator
- Rachel Botchan
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 2 October 2025
- Run Time
- 13 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'Engaging . . . this excellent book lays out the damage of letting arbitrary political power intervene in business' – Financial Times
'A must-read account from a heroic reporter who has taken on the world's most dangerous tech company' – Chris Miller, award-winning author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
This is the dramatic, untold story of TikTok.
Charting its rise from obscurity into the world’s most valuable startup, Emily Baker-White reveals how TikTok's visionary founder, ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming, reshaped the global internet from a place where you searched for information to one where information comes to you. Billions of users were soon hooked.
But there was a cost to such success. Soon, TikTok was embroiled in accusations of surveillance, censorship and user manipulation, attracting controversy from India and Europe to the US. After Baker-White – a Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative reporter – revealed that Chinese engineers could access Americans’ private information, a team of ByteDance employees even used the app to track her.
Based on unprecedented access to internal documents, leaked recordings and accounts from whistle-blowers inside the company, Every Screen on the Planet reveals how TikTok became trapped between China and the USA, desperate to survive. It is the story of how your attention became the world’s most valuable – and dangerous – commodity.
'Revealing. A story about power, control and the hidden battles shaping what we see online' – Parmy Olson, bestselling author of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World
Critics Review
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Is TikTok spying on you? It already has spied on Emily Baker-White, in the course of her pathbreaking research into the company's out-of-control surveillance and its legal subjugation to Beijing's spymasters. Deeply researched and nuanced in its judgments, this is a must-read account from a heroic reporter who has taken on the world's most dangerous tech company
Chris Miller, bestselling author of Chip War
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Revealing. A story about power, control and the hidden battles shaping what we see online. A smart and surprisingly deep dive that will make you rethink what's going on behind TikTok's endless scroll
Parmy Olson, bestselling author of Supremacy
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Engaging . . . this excellent book lays out the damage of letting arbitrary political power intervene in business
Financial Times
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Details
- Author
- Emily Baker-White
- Narrator
- Rachel Botchan
- Duration
- 13 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035049301
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Information technology industries, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Disinformation and misinformation, Whistleblowing
Synopsis
'Engaging . . . this excellent book lays out the damage of letting arbitrary political power intervene in business' – Financial Times'A must-read account from a heroic reporter who has taken on the world's most dangerous tech company' – Chris Miller, award-winning author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical TechnologyThis is the dramatic, untold story of TikTok.Charting its rise from obscurity into the world’s most valuable startup, Emily Baker-White reveals how TikTok's visionary founder, ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming, reshaped the global internet from a place where you searched for information to one where information comes to you. Billions of users were soon hooked.But there was a cost to such success. Soon, TikTok was embroiled in accusations of surveillance, censorship and user manipulation, attracting controversy from India and Europe to the US. After Baker-White – a Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative reporter – revealed that Chinese engineers could access Americans’ private information, a team of ByteDance employees even used the app to track her.Based on unprecedented access to internal documents, leaked recordings and accounts from whistle-blowers inside the company, Every Screen on the Planet reveals how TikTok became trapped between China and the USA, desperate to survive. It is the story of how your attention became the world’s mo­­­­st valuable – and dangerous – commodity.'Revealing. A story about power, control and the hidden battles shaping what we see online' – Parmy Olson, bestselling author of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World
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