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Eoin Higgins talks about his book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

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Eoin Higgins talks about his book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left .

He uses Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi as case studies in how shifting monetary incentives created by tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen turned formerly respected progressive journalists into right-wing blowhards.

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47

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39

Neutral language

46

Article tone

formal

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English

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59

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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