Emily Baker-White
@ebakerwhite
tech reporter @Forbes. Writing a book on TikTok. Contact me at [email protected]. (No pitches please!)
Over the last few years, TikTok has become the most influential platform in the world. So I'm writing a book about the app, the governments jockeying to control it, and the people who made it what it is today. Got tips? Send 'em! [email protected] or DM for Signal.
The Agora, sued by the SEC, FTC, and two state AGs, reaches hundreds of millions of people across social media with misleading promises of wealth and wellness. trib.al/wZYf4O0 (Illustration: Philip Smith for Forbes; Photo: Fanatic Studio via Getty Images)
New- Will Somerindyke supplied munitions to warzones for years. Now with investor BVVC, he's joined the defense tech boom, and is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" for Union, a startup making artillery shells. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…
Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers — took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and reserved tickets to a trump rally they weren't gonna use. forbes.com/sites/emilybak…
yall — did the kids do it again?? forbes.com/sites/emilybak…
New: Meta is recruiting former national security officials to bolster its military ambitions, months after allowing its Llama AI model to be used for military use. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…
I’ve spent the past year+ working on a book about TikTok. It’s out in September. Pre-order now!! everyscreenontheplanet.com
today, my dear friend Greg Baltz published a very cool new piece about tenant union organizing, which you should all read immediately! lpeproject.org/blog/organizin…
Does Trump even want TikTok to win its case? Maybe not, if he’s just looking out for himself. forbes.com/sites/emilybak…
I continue to be obsessed with this question: is the perverse outcome of this law a transfer of all Americans’ private TikTok data from Oracle back to a foreign ByteDance server somewhere? forbes.com/sites/emilybak…
🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/@edwardsanthonyb for updates on the LA Fires and then w/ @ebakerwhite & @LevinsonJessica about what a ban on TikTok could mean for the company and creators. ❓What questions do you have about a possible TikTok ban? 📻 Listen: kqed.org/forum/20101019…
This story is bananas
New: As Silicon Valley leaders decry ‘wokeism,’ I profiled a group called New Founding that says it's at the center of a Christian-MAGA-tech movement building a new blueprint for VC. And Marc Andreessen is in. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…
hi here are some thoughts on this bananas briefing schedule it sure seems like SCOTUS wants to hear from the DOJ that helped write the law, rather than one that might be told to try to torpedo it forbes.com/sites/emilybak…
Exclusive: Bulgaria-born investor Villi Iltchev had to scrap his way to Silicon Valley. Then he wrote one of tech's best-ever early checks. Now the GitLab and Remote investor has raised $160 million for a debut pre-seed and seed fund, Category Ventures. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
TikTok’s courting Trump. But at least for now, its loss may be his gain. forbes.com/sites/emilybak…
North Korea's Lazarus Group hackers have a new tactic, according to the FBI. They are now impersonating VCs to get time and access with crypto executives in order to install malicious code. It’s already netted them $34 million from just one startup forbes.com/sites/iainmart…
🚨 NEW 🚨 In late October, Kamala Harris' security team had evidence of spyware on at least two staff iPhones. They asked Apple for help getting deeper access to the iPhones. Apple declined. Harris and her team still have no idea if they were hacked. forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…