Every Screen on the Planet: The Secret Story of TikTok

'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 Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology'Engaging . . . this excellent book lays out the damage of letting arbitrary political power intervene in business' - Financial TimesIt’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. This is the dramatic, untold story of TikTok. Charting 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