Emily Baker-White is a San Francisco-based investigative reporter at Forbes, where she covers the way tech companies shape our discourse, commerce, and culture. Her coverage of TikTok won the 2024 NYFWA Impact Award and a 2022 SABEW Best in Business Honorable Mention. At BuzzFeed, she broke the story that TikTok had made private U.S. user data widely accessible to employees of its parent company, ByteDance, in China. At Forbes, she exposed an effort by ByteDance employees to surveil journalists, including herself.
Baker-White is a Harvard Law School graduate and former criminal defender. She previously led the Plain View Project, an investigation into police misconduct on Facebook, and worked in content policy at Facebook and Spotify.