Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) — Twitter Score 222 out of 1000

Bari Weiss is a journalist and media entrepreneur who co-founded The Free Press and now serves as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Bari Weiss's Twitter Score is 222 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #1,936 (top 0.5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.

Bari Weiss co-founded The Free Press, which grew out of her Common Sense newsletter on Substack before being rebranded. Per Axios, the flagship newsletter had reached 283,000 free and paid subscribers as of December 2022, and per AP, the publication had grown to 1.5 million subscribers since Weiss started it in 2021 after leaving The New York Times, where she had previously worked as an op-ed staff writer and editor. The Free Press received backing from investors including venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and David Sacks and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, per The Guardian.

Bari Weiss hosts Honestly with Bari Weiss and previously worked at The Wall Street Journal as an op-ed and book-review editor. Paramount acquired The Free Press and installed Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News, with AP reporting she would remain in charge of The Free Press alongside that role; no purchase price was announced. Bari Weiss has drawn crypto-adjacent attention through her free-speech and Twitter Files coverage, with Axios noting The Free Press launched early to capitalize on that reporting. Bari Weiss's account has 1,122,425 followers as of September 2026 and 19,203 posts, and has been mentioned by 510 accounts a total of 2,015 times.

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