Higgins, Eoin <br/><br/>
Owned :  how tech billionaires on the right bought the loudest voices on the left / 
Eoin Higgins. 
 - First edition. 
 - 293 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part one: Freed speech -- "Unclaimed territory" -- "We're out here doing shit" -- "Empowered for the first time" -- "Time to make the switch" -- "I thought we were doing great reporting" -- "There's nobody like the people in this room" -- "His editorial voice will be his own" -- Part two: Devils' advocates -- "Don't go out like a sucker" -- "We don't like Nazis either...But..." -- "Playing God with everyone else's lives" -- "The 'ladder of oppression'" -- "Mind Virus" -- "LOL. pass." -- "Hard for me to change my mind" -- "Exposed as frauds". 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781645030461 (hardcover) 1645030466 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2024022518 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Journalism--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Periodismo--Historia--Estados Unidos --Siglo XXI <br/>Journalism--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Periodismo--Aspectos políticos--Estados Unidos <br/>Mass media--Ownership--United States.<br/>Rich people--Influence.<br/>Journalism--Objectivity.<br/>Periodismo--Objetividad 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 4867.2  / H636o 2025 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>071/.3