{"product_id":"owned-eoin-higgins-9781645030461","title":"Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left","description":"\u003cb\u003e A cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOwned \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A biting expos? of journalist greed and tech-billionaire ambition, \u003ci\u003eOwned \u003c\/i\u003efollows 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eoin Higgins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1645030466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645030461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bold Type Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.75w x 1.05d","brand":"Eoin Higgins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45934186234111,"sku":"9781645030461","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db966f7b-2b00-4206-852b-2179778aaa22.jpg?v=1721790550","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/owned-eoin-higgins-9781645030461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}