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Owned : how tech billionaires on the right bought the loudest voices on the left

Owned : how tech billionaires on the right bought the loudest voices on the left

Book 2025

"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 a...