Owned: how tech billionaires on the right bought the loudest voices on the left
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New York : Bold Type Books, 2025.
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Book
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First edition.
Physical Desc:
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781645030461, 1645030466, 9781645030461
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"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 exposé 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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Higgins, E. (2025). Owned: how tech billionaires on the right bought the loudest voices on the left. First edition. Bold Type Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Higgins, Eoin. 2025. Owned: How Tech Billionaires On the Right Bought the Loudest Voices On the Left. Bold Type Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Higgins, Eoin, Owned: How Tech Billionaires On the Right Bought the Loudest Voices On the Left. Bold Type Books, 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Higgins, Eoin. Owned: How Tech Billionaires On the Right Bought the Loudest Voices On the Left. First edition. Bold Type Books, 2025.
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