Emily Baker-WhiteReceiver of the 2024 Impact Award from the New York Financial Writers’ Association for Distingughed Financial Journalism, discusses how she broke one of the greatest technical stories.
Her groundbreaking series of articles about infringements of privacy at Tiktok, the world’s most popular social media app, both forbes and Buzzfeed News. Her report on Tiktok, with 1.6 billion active users worldwide, tore the veil of privacy promises of the app managers and showed that the Chinese owners of Tiktok had regular access to the private data of his American users.
The many scoops of Baker-White helped in reforming the worldwide conversation and the debate about the controversial app, and her articles were often cited by political leaders in the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, while taking steps to reduce their exposure to Tiktok. These steps include the approval of a new law by the US Congress in 2024 that obliges the Chinese owners of Tiktok, Bytedance, to sell the American unit of Tiktok.
Baker-White writes a book about Tiktok that will be published this fall.
Veteran journalist and impact prize chairman Greg Miles Interviews Baker-White, now a senior writer and research reporter at Forbes, about the tools she used to break her tap stories, and problems including the global influence of the app as a cultural and propaganda tool,
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