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

by Eoin Higgins

Following money and influence through a changing media landscape

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Following money and influence through a changing media landscape

Eoin Higgins’s account examines the convergence of Silicon Valley wealth and journalism, tracing how prominent technology investors have entered media and formed alliances with journalists once associated with left-leaning reporting. The book places these relationships in a broader history of the rise of right-wing alternative media and considers their implications for independent journalism, criticism, and social platforms. Its central concern is how concentrated wealth may shape the reach and independence of news voices, connecting media ownership to political influence and business interests.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the politics of media ownership and internet platforms.
  • Readers following debates about independent journalism and the influence of wealthy technology investors.
  • Readers seeking an account of the rise of right-wing alternative media.

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Media ownership and political influenceTechnology wealthJournalistic independenceAlternative media

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Book overview

A "devastating" (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape

Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing 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 Taibbi--once known as idealistic and left-leaning 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 fact-based 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 interests--and personal vendettas--entirely unimpeded while also advancing a toxic and antidemocratic ideology.

A rich history of the decades-long rise of this new right-wing 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
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