Emily Baker-White

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MGX Says $2 Billion Binance Investment Used USD1 Because Of ‘Compliance History’—But The Trump-Linked Stablecoin Was Brand New The Abu Dhabi fund told Forbes that Binance requested settling with a cryptocurrency and used a stablecoin for stability, ultimately selecting USD1, in part, because it was backed by U.S. government a...

New: Abu Dhabi fund MGX told me it picked USD1—a Trump family–linked stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—to put $2B into Binance, citing its “compliance history.”

USD1 had just launched.

me, for @forbes.com

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"An in-depth account of the struggle between the U.S. and China to control TikTok.…gripping….comprehensive….Readers will be riveted." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

@ebakerwhite.bsky.social is on tour now for EVERY SCREEN ON THE PLANET.
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come play!!

My TikTok book is out in stores today!

Why should you read it? Because 1 in 5 Americans now get their news from this thing. We should all understand how it works.

It was inevitable that strongmen would seek to control a tool this powerful. The book is the story of what happened when they did.

I generate transcripts rather than watching videos

[closes tab]

Refusing to watch a video that could have been an article is, like, my whole personality

Trump’s TikTok Deal Seems Like The One The Biden White House Rejected Trump appears poised to accept a set of terms similar to Project Texas, a ByteDance proposal that Biden felt perpetuated an unacceptable risk to national security.

new from me: time is a flat circle

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Concerns about TikTok becoming a partisan MAGA engine are reasonable, but having listened to what Trump actually said here, this headline is misleading and needlessly inflammatory.

wait whut

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
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The proposal is not about section 230, so the above commenter’s concern is not relevant.

It’s not about section 230. It’s about forcing tech companies to be more transparent about their systems.

Opinion | Legislators Should Force Social Media Platforms to Tell the Truth

Related: legislators should make all platforms maintain their own crowdtangles (and ad libraries)!

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“ByteDance will be maintaining ownership of TikTok's U.S. business operations and will cede control of the app’s data, content and algorithm to the newly formed joint venture, the sources said.”

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tfw your complex rev share agreement is definitely not an “operational relationship”

ByteDance to Get About 50% of TikTok US Profit Under Trump Deal TikTok’s Chinese parent company will likely get about half of the profit from the platform’s US operation even after it sells majority ownership to American investors as part of a deal orchestrated by...

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Please say more

Look at them go

@darthbluesky.bsky.social omfg

Update! The EO says it’s saving CapCut and Lemon8 and …maybe some of the others, TBD?

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Will TikTok’s Parent Company's Other Apps, Be Saved, Or Banned? U.S. law requires a ban of CapCut, Gauth, Lemon8, Coze, and many other ByteDance- owned apps, unless they are sold in the TikTok deal that President Trump announced today.

Just checkin in about the fate of CapCut and a bunch of other apps that millions of Americans use

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Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Is A Gift To European AI Startups Hiring foreign workers just got more expensive for American tech companies. But that’s opened up new recruiting opportunities for non-U.S. AI startups.

We chatted with European startup founders who think Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee could be a boon for the region: “We almost say thank you to Trump, in a way. He’s really helping us keep our talent.” With @rashis.bsky.social
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Opinion | A U.S. Sale Isn’t Enough. Here’s How to Make TikTok Safer.

It’s insane that platforms don’t tell us the most popular 10, 100, 1000 posts on TikTok or YouTube or Instagram each day. Lawmakers should make them publish what they are, in real time, so we can track misinfo and propaganda.

In other words: bring back crowdtangle!

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YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News This Is What Happens Next After The Trump Admin Ties Tylenol Use To Autism: Forbes Healthcare Editor

Watch my brilliant colleague @thealexknapp.bsky.social break down what this misinfo will mean for regular people:

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Trump’s Unproven Claims About Tylenol And Autism Are Reaching Millions On TikTok Even as medical groups push back on Trump’s unfounded claims about autism, they're going viral on the world's biggest video platform.

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How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on bil...

A series of bold bets and calculated risks helped Michael Intrator turn @CoreWeave from a no-name crypto miner into a $50 billion company, serving compute to the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Elated to share my latest @forbes.com cover story with @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...