Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left by Higgins, Eoin

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

A cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape. Matt...
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Author: Eoin Higgins
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Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left by Higgins, Eoin

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

$67.95

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

$67.95
Author: Eoin Higgins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape.

Matt Taibbi used to take on the rich and powerful, but today, his reporting is crafted to please grievance-addicted American conservatives. Glenn Greenwald, whose reporting on the Snowden leaks arguably changed the course of history, has similarly taken a hard right turn. Yet these political transformations of journalists formerly associated with the left did not happen in a vacuum. The new mouthpieces of the right are paid and disseminated by an emerging "alternative" media ecosystem, funded by a cohort of billionaires whose goal is to censor critics, so these new plutocrats can pursue their businesses--and personal vendettas--entirely unimpeded.

Owned is the story of the underreported collaboration between the new wealth and the new journalism. Right-wing billionaires like Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk use their wealth to fund journalists--like Taibbi and Greenwald--who exploit the failings of traditional journalism and social media. This unholy alliance has undermined the very idea of an independent and fact-based press while ostensibly standing up for principles of liberty and free speech.

A biting expos? of journalist greed and tech-billionaire ambition, Owned follows the money, and offers a chilling portrait of the future social media and news landscape, empty of all critique, except for newly empowered right-wing commentators.

Author: Eoin Higgins
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 8.50h x 5.75w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9781645030461

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