Emily Baker-White
@ebakerwhite.bsky.social
Investigative reporter @ Forbes, fmr BuzzFeed News. Author: Every Screen On The Planet: The War Over TikTok.
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Prev. content policy @ Facebook, Spotify. Founder, Plain View Project. HLS c/o 2015.
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Prev. content policy @ Facebook, Spotify. Founder, Plain View Project. HLS c/o 2015.
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I’ve spent the past year+ working on a book about TikTok. It’s out in September. Pre-order now!!
www.everyscreenontheplanet.com
www.everyscreenontheplanet.com
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I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
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My son put it best when he was a young kid: "Cats are great because you get happy every time you encounter them. You turn a corner, and there's a cat there, and it's like there's a cat, and that's great."
I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.
I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.
January 4, 2026 at 11:04 PM
My son put it best when he was a young kid: "Cats are great because you get happy every time you encounter them. You turn a corner, and there's a cat there, and it's like there's a cat, and that's great."
I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.
I always think about it whenever I turn a corner and encounter a cat.
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A fun question for a WH correspondent to ask Trump would be to point out Venezuela on a map.
January 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
A fun question for a WH correspondent to ask Trump would be to point out Venezuela on a map.
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Important to remember that the TikTok deal, which delivered the app into the hands of pro-Trump billionaires, was only made possible by President Biden and the Democrats.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Trump turns Biden’s TikTok law into a big win
Biden officials said selling TikTok would safeguard it from political influence. Now, critics of a spinoff deal to Trump allies say that aim could be subverted.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Important to remember that the TikTok deal, which delivered the app into the hands of pro-Trump billionaires, was only made possible by President Biden and the Democrats.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
I see a lotta people saying they don't see Trump in the latest Epstein production but take a look at the lower left quadrant of this photo...
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I see a lotta people saying they don't see Trump in the latest Epstein production but take a look at the lower left quadrant of this photo...
www.forbes.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
this slaps
THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
this slaps
The D.N.C. Is Killing Its Autopsy of What Went Wrong in 2024
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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"Trump Billionaires Club: New Game Adds Utility To His Struggling Meme Coin"
me, for @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
me, for @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
www.forbes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"Trump Billionaires Club: New Game Adds Utility To His Struggling Meme Coin"
me, for @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
me, for @forbes.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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In response to SSRN's removal of Professor Edwards's "The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses," I have posted "A Response to SSRN's Removal of Jerry Edwards's 'The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses'"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
![On December 11, 2025, President Donald J. Trump announced a pardon for former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters. A veritable mob of critics emerged to condemn the pardon as unlawful, illegal, not allowed, and fundamentally inconsistent with the narrowly circumscribed powers of the President to “grant pardons and reprieves for Offenses against the United States,” which clearly refers to federal offenses. 1 In response to the hullabaloo, Professor Jerry Edwards bravely “survey[ed] hundreds of years of history in the past few days” and wrote an article “assessing the originalist case.”2 Professor Edwards made the regrettable mistake of posting his article to the Social Science Research Network (“SSRN”), which concluded that his “manuscript [did] not meet the criteria for posting on SSRN” and subsequently removed it3—demonstrating yet another instance of well-documented bias against originalist legal scholarship.4 To the untrained scholar, Professor Edwards’s scholarship may have seemed like he just copied and pasted the lyrics to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”5 into a Word document, which spanned approximately a page and a half, and conducted no originalist analysis. Even if Professor Edwards did just that,6 characterizing this discussion as somehow unfitting of other works in the originalist oeuvre7 is, yet again, anti-originalist bias. In this brief essay, which was rushedly written to ensure that the whole commentariat was aware of the “entire literature that disagrees”8 with the notion that the President cannot pardon state crimes, I analyze the lyrics of “Never Gonna Give You Up.” I conclude that it has as direct, helpful, and material a bearing on originalist jurisprudence on the President’s pardon power as any leading originalist scholar could muster.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q3dycka5ce2gybcbau5gfehd/bafkreiciwxwj5gbuomhmhbkn4gncsoy5icfxwyxijxyzm5hw6q5v4xxj3y@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In response to SSRN's removal of Professor Edwards's "The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses," I have posted "A Response to SSRN's Removal of Jerry Edwards's 'The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses'"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brb starting a wine bar that just serves wine, fresh housemade bread, and a variety of oils, dips, and pestos
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Brb starting a wine bar that just serves wine, fresh housemade bread, and a variety of oils, dips, and pestos
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Thank you to everyone who has shared this. The hearing is over for today. DHS has filed a motion to pretermit (end Guan's asylum application in the US) and have him sent to Uganda - where he'd be at risk of being sent to China. The hearing to decide that will be held 12 January.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Thank you to everyone who has shared this. The hearing is over for today. DHS has filed a motion to pretermit (end Guan's asylum application in the US) and have him sent to Uganda - where he'd be at risk of being sent to China. The hearing to decide that will be held 12 January.
Read about Ahmed al Ahmed, local fruit stall owner and savior of who knows how many lives. May we all be this brave and righteous in a crisis.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Read about Ahmed al Ahmed, local fruit stall owner and savior of who knows how many lives. May we all be this brave and righteous in a crisis.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
hmm
Checking in on updates for Turning Point USA’s upcoming Phoenix conference AmericaFest and TikTok being a listed sponsor is definitely new this year.
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
hmm
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks at the ICE Baltimore field office for a scheduled check-in. Abrego was released from custody after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue holding him in an immigration detention center.
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Here are the bylaws for Donald Trump Jr.’s Executive Branch club.
I don’t believe the full document has been reported before.
It was publicly available — the link was buried in the club website’s source code.
admin.executivebranch.com/wp-content/u...
I don’t believe the full document has been reported before.
It was publicly available — the link was buried in the club website’s source code.
admin.executivebranch.com/wp-content/u...
December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here are the bylaws for Donald Trump Jr.’s Executive Branch club.
I don’t believe the full document has been reported before.
It was publicly available — the link was buried in the club website’s source code.
admin.executivebranch.com/wp-content/u...
I don’t believe the full document has been reported before.
It was publicly available — the link was buried in the club website’s source code.
admin.executivebranch.com/wp-content/u...
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After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com:
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com:
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
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This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This does actually change the entire story. Assuming it's correct, it was an entirely lawful seizure.
Alas, it’s just me, reading an article, being accosted by an autoplay video ad, and ragequitting the page never to return.
Why does *anyone* think this works to sell stuff?! The sole effect is making sure we never read your article’s kicker 🫠
Why does *anyone* think this works to sell stuff?! The sole effect is making sure we never read your article’s kicker 🫠
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Alas, it’s just me, reading an article, being accosted by an autoplay video ad, and ragequitting the page never to return.
Why does *anyone* think this works to sell stuff?! The sole effect is making sure we never read your article’s kicker 🫠
Why does *anyone* think this works to sell stuff?! The sole effect is making sure we never read your article’s kicker 🫠
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
ima have 2 of each cookie now you misery grinch
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
ima have 2 of each cookie now you misery grinch
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ICE took my brother in law. My family is now on the growing list of people that Trump's policies have directly impacted.
Things will be challenging for a while – if you can help my sister, Ramiro, and their two little girls in any way, it will be so appreciated.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...
Things will be challenging for a while – if you can help my sister, Ramiro, and their two little girls in any way, it will be so appreciated.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...
Donate to Standing with the Rodriguez Family Now, organized by Jessica Brand
Friends,
Our dear friends, Leah and Ramiro Rodriguez, need our support. For t… Jessica Brand needs your support for Standing with the Rodriguez Family Now
www.gofundme.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
ICE took my brother in law. My family is now on the growing list of people that Trump's policies have directly impacted.
Things will be challenging for a while – if you can help my sister, Ramiro, and their two little girls in any way, it will be so appreciated.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...
Things will be challenging for a while – if you can help my sister, Ramiro, and their two little girls in any way, it will be so appreciated.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...
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🚨NEW🚨 At the southern border, officers use Cellebrite forensic devices to access iPhones of immigration crime suspects.
Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead.
A CBP playbook on border surveillance.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead.
A CBP playbook on border surveillance.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
Border Patrol’s Digital Playbook: Hack iPhones, Raid iCloud Accounts
A CBP search warrant shows how it relies on data raids on iClouds when its forensics tools can't get enough information from iPhones.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🚨NEW🚨 At the southern border, officers use Cellebrite forensic devices to access iPhones of immigration crime suspects.
Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead.
A CBP playbook on border surveillance.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead.
A CBP playbook on border surveillance.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...