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@nickbilton

Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair. Author of New York Times-bestsellers, "AMERICAN KINGPIN," in paperback 5/29. Host of "Inside the Hive" podcast.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2007

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    May 30

    Tried to come up with a creative way to announce that the paperback version of my book, American Kingpin, is out today, but I can’t come up with anything that will stand out from Rosanne, Trump, Kanye or Elon’s twittering. So here it is. Please clap.

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    Breaking: Twitter is permanently suspending Infowars and Alex Jones from the platform for violating its abusive behavior clause.

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  3. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    Fourth time’s the charm! The great let me podcast with him again and, as usual, he was 1. the best and 2. eager to play a game about who may go to jail.

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    Aug 25

    Breaking News: John McCain has died of brain cancer at 81. Once a prisoner of war, he made two bids for president and was a towering presence in the Senate.

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    Aug 24

    Reminder: The consequences of family separation will far out-last this administration. Watch one family's reunion after months of separation.

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    Aug 21

    ‘I can think of nothing more American.’ — Beto O'Rourke — the man taking on Ted Cruz — brilliantly explains why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful

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    Aug 17

    On the new Inside the Hive, talks to , the journalist who helped break the child-separation story

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    Aug 16

    Former employees of Twitter, writes , say that the company "is like a balancing scale, with assholes and revenue on the same side; less assholes means less money"

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  9. Aug 15

    I give my three-year-old a "timeout" for hitting his little brother. You don’t give an adult man who makes fortunes of money by attacking the parents of slain 5- and 6-year-olds a "timeout" for trying to start an ideological war using your platform.

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    Aug 13

    I’ve been a daily user of for the last 11 years - long before I started working at Twitter. I won’t be a “monthly active user” during the rest of Q3. I’m deleting the app from all my devices and signing out of all browsers. , thread 👇

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    Aug 7

    Have you considered adding a new rule against users who harass the parents of dead kindergartners so much that they have to go into hiding?

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    Aug 3

    Listen up ya just might learn something.

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    Aug 1

    I’ve been hearing and claiming that ‘collusion is not a crime.’ Well, I took the liberty of reading the U.S. code myself. Here’s what the law actually says:

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    Aug 1

    The culture wars over social-media hoaxes, Russian propaganda, and 3-D-printed guns suggest a hard truth: maybe the Constitution wasn’t built for the Internet

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    the fact that Alex Jones is seeking over $100,000 in court costs from the parents of a child who died at Sandy Hook is awful. and it's made all the worse when you realize how much money Jones and Infowars rake in from its audience.

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  16. Jul 31

    Apple is 5 points away from being the world’s first trillion dollar company. If you would have bought stock in 1984, instead of a Macintosh (value $2,500), you’d have made a $1.2 million return today.

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    Jul 31

    Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa. I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy.

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    Jul 31

    Grateful to for citing the paper on that and I recently wrote. His article is terrific. If you’d like to read our paper, by the way, it’s downloadable here:

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    Jul 30

    This is what happens when you search Tom Hanks on YouTube today. Last week, Qanon folks decided he was a pedophile. If you were to search YouTube today, you'd believe it.

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    Jul 27

    1/ We obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. In the following tweets, we’ll share some of the most disturbing records we found.

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