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Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is currently a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, author of several New York Times-bestselling books, and screenwriter.
Bilton was born in England, but later moved to the United States and attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Bilton worked at The New York Times from 2003 to 2016, as a design editor in the newsroom and a researcher in the research and development labs. Before he left, he was a technology columnist and the lead writer for the Bits blog.
In 2016, he left The New York Times to become a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he writes features and columns. He co-wrote the 2015-2019 Vanity Fair New Establishment List.
In 2025 it was announced that Bilton would write the screenplay for a new Martin Scorsese film, starring Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt, set to take stage in Hawaii. Bilton will also produce the film.
In 2021, HBO released Fake Famous, a documentary film Bilton wrote, directed and produced about social media and influencer culture.
In 2016, Bilton fought, and won, a 1st Amendment lawsuit when he was deposed to testify in a class action lawsuit against Twitter, after an article he wrote in Vanity Fair, “Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey. Will It Work?” alleged that the company knowingly deceived investors in 2015 about its users’ daily and monthly engagement with the site.
Bilton is the author of three books: I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted (2010), Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (2013), and American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (2017).
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Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is currently a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, author of several New York Times-bestselling books, and screenwriter.
Bilton was born in England, but later moved to the United States and attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Bilton worked at The New York Times from 2003 to 2016, as a design editor in the newsroom and a researcher in the research and development labs. Before he left, he was a technology columnist and the lead writer for the Bits blog.
In 2016, he left The New York Times to become a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he writes features and columns. He co-wrote the 2015-2019 Vanity Fair New Establishment List.
In 2025 it was announced that Bilton would write the screenplay for a new Martin Scorsese film, starring Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt, set to take stage in Hawaii. Bilton will also produce the film.
In 2021, HBO released Fake Famous, a documentary film Bilton wrote, directed and produced about social media and influencer culture.
In 2016, Bilton fought, and won, a 1st Amendment lawsuit when he was deposed to testify in a class action lawsuit against Twitter, after an article he wrote in Vanity Fair, “Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey. Will It Work?” alleged that the company knowingly deceived investors in 2015 about its users’ daily and monthly engagement with the site.
Bilton is the author of three books: I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted (2010), Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (2013), and American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (2017).
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