Engaging... this excellent book outlines the damage caused by allowing arbitrary political power to interfere in business. – Financial Times
A must-read account from a heroic reporter who has confronted the world’s most dangerous tech company – Chris Miller, award-winning author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
Every Screen on the Planet is the dramatic, untold story of TikTok. Tracing its rise from obscurity to the world's most valuable startup, Emily Baker-White describes how its visionary founder, ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming, transformed the global internet from a place where you searched for information to one where information comes to you. Billions of users were soon captivated.
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 journalist – 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 caught 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
Pages: 368, Year of Publication: 1002, Dimensions: 16.3x16.3cm
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishers
- Type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Release Date
- 06/08/2026
- Publication Date
- 2026
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781035049288
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