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Every screen on the planet : the war over TikTok / Emily Baker-White.
"Every Screen on the Planet is the first major book on one of the most dramatic business stories of our time. Touching on politics, finance, data, and technology, the struggle over TikTok has enormous implications for our information landscape and the technological cold war between the United States and China"-- Amazon description.
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- ISBN: 9781324086666 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: viii, 360 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2025.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 302.231 Bak | 31681010439644 | NONFIC | Checked out | 01/02/2026 |
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An investigative journalist explores the addictive algorithm that lies at the center of a geopolitical battle, as TikTokâs rise sparks concerns over surveillance, propaganda and the future of a free internet amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and China. - WW Norton
The story of the most effective attention algorithm ever invented, and the superpower struggle to control it. - WW Norton
Every Screen on the PlanetEmily Baker-Whiteâs engrossing narrative charts TikTokâs rise from obscurity into the worldâs most valuable startup, led by its ambitious founder, Zhang Yimingâarguably the father of the modern recommendation algorithm. Zhangâs products reshaped the global internet from a place where you searched for information to one where information came to you. TikTok seemed to know its users in an almost spooky way, provoking wonder and delight. People were hooked. âWe intend to become ubiquitous,â a new-hire training video said, to put TikTok âon every screen on the planet."But virtually everything about TikTokâs usersâtheir interests, locations, and even their unspoken desiresâwas accessible to staff in Beijing. After Baker-White, a Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative reporter, revealed that Chinese engineers could access Americansâ private information, a team of employees used the app to track her location and attempt to expose whistleblowers. This incident triggered an ongoing criminal investigation and escalated the US governmentâs fight against Chinese tech.TikTok was the first Chinese app to become a US juggernaut, and lawmakers soon recognized its potential for surveillance and propagandaâand the threat it might pose in the hands of their rivals. Yet even as hawks in Congress gained support to ban the app, the White House was secretly negotiating for unprecedented control over its information stream. In 2025, when President Donald Trump declined to enforce the so-called ban law, TikTok seemed to complete a miraculous corporate escape. It retained its influence, profits, and power, but now operated at the pleasure of two strongmen: Chinaâs Xi Jinping and Trump himself.
