{"product_id":"9781035049288","title":"Every Screen on the Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eChip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Engaging . . . this excellent book lays out the damage of letting arbitrary political power intervene in business' - \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's on your phone. It's on your children's phones. It's on more than a billion screens across the planet, serving up joy, creativity and connection. But behind the slick feed of the world's most addictive app lies ruthless ambition and a global war for control.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the dramatic, untold story of TikTok.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharting 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 by the most effective recommendation algorithm in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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 location.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on unprecedented access to internal documents, leaked recordings and accounts from whistle-blowers inside the company, \u003ci\u003eEvery Screen on the Planet\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how TikTok became trapped between two superpowers, desperate to survive. It is the story of how your attention became the world's mo----st valuable - and dangerous - commodity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Revealing. A story about power, control and the hidden battles shaping what we see online' - Parmy Olson, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSupremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baker-White, Emily","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58355017318774,"sku":"9781035049288","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1208\/4146\/files\/9781035049288.jpg?v=1785237189","url":"https:\/\/chepstowbooks.co.uk\/products\/9781035049288","provider":"Chepstow Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}