Bilton was born in England, but later moved to the United States and attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

[4] In 2021, HBO released Fake Famous, a documentary film Bilton wrote, directed and produced about social media and influencer culture.

Will It Work?”[6] alleged that the company knowingly deceived investors in 2015 about its users’ daily and monthly engagement with the site.

Hatching Twitter told the story of the Twitter's early days and its four founders—Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone—who are portrayed as "mediocrities, narcissists and mopers who seem to spend as much time on scheming, self-promotion and self-destruction as on anything else", according to Tim Wu's review in the Washington Post.

[11] American Kingpin, published in May 2017, tells the story of the Silk Road marketplace, its founder Ross Ulbricht (who went by "Dread Pirate Roberts"), and how U.S. law enforcement arrested him.