Eoin Higgins Owned : How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest

A devastating (Nation) examination of how a cabal of techbillionaires is colluding with onceidealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscapeOwned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, rightwing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks have turned to media as their next investment and source of influence. Their cronies are Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbionce known as idealistic and leftleaning voices, now beneficiaries of Silicon Valley largesse. Together, this new alliance aims to exploit the failings of traditional journalism and undermine the very idea of an independent and factbased fourth estate. Owned examines how this shift has allowed spectacularly wealthy reactionaries to pursue their ultimate goal of censoring critics so to further their own business interestsand personal vendettasentirely unimpeded while also advancing a toxic and antidemocratic ideology. A rich history of the decadeslong rise of this new rightwing alternative media takeover, Owned follows the money, names names, and offers a chilling portrait of a future social media and news landscape. It is a biting expos of journalistic greed, techbillionaire ambition, and a lament for a disappearing free press. | Eoin Higgins Owned : How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest