About this episode
Paris Marx is joined by Eoin Higgins to discuss how tech billionaires set out to change the media ecosystem and made it profitable for influential voices to shift to the political right. Eoin Higgins is a journalist and the author of Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left . Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon . The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Also mentioned in this episode: Read an excerpt of Eoin’s book on LitHub . Last year, Peter Thiel bragged to Ann Coulter about killing Gawker . Rick Perlstein wrote about the time he met Marc Andreessen . Support the show