Owned
How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
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Eoin Higgins
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A cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape.
Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks have turned to media as their next investment and source of influence. Their cronies are Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi—once known as idealistic and left-leaning voices, now beneficiaries of Silicon Valley largesse. Together, this new alliance aims to exploit the failings of traditional journalism and undermine the very idea of an independent and fact-based fourth estate.
Owned examines how this shift has allowed spectacularly wealthy reactionaries to pursue their ultimate goal of censoring critics so to further their own business interests—and personal vendettas—entirely unimpeded while also advancing a toxic and antidemocratic ideology.
A rich history of the decades-long rise of this new right-wing alternative media takeover, Owned follows the money, names names, and offers a chilling portrait of a future social media and news landscape. It is a biting exposé of journalistic greed, tech-billionaire ambition, and a lament for a disappearing free press.
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A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts strong then goes political, common for left technocrats
- De Michael S. Rice en 05-24-25
De: Raj M. Shah, y otros
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Clown World
- Four Years inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere
- De: Jamie Tahsin, Matt Shea
- Narrado por: Jamie Tahsin, Matt Shea
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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In 2022, Andrew Tate went from a little-known kickboxer and failed reality TV star to a lifestyle icon for legions of men and boys, and a figure that would define a new era of misogyny. Tate started the year as a fringe internet celebrity, but by August he was the most googled man in the world. In that same month, Matt Shea and Jamie Tahsin gained access to his Bucharest compound and infamous War Room, making a documentary that would result in the first women coming forward to accuse him publicly of sexual and physical violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining, Informative, and an Incredible Cache of Cringe!
- De Brittainy en 02-23-25
De: Jamie Tahsin, y otros
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What Tech Calls Thinking
- An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
- De: Adrian Daub
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley’s world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry of “disruption”, Daub locates the Valley’s supposedly original, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Ayn Rand, the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur, and more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Trite, filled with vapid examinations
- De Ben Nelson en 01-08-24
De: Adrian Daub
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Doctored
- Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
- De: Charles Piller
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Nearly seven million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease, a tragedy that is already projected to grow into a $1 trillion crisis by 2050. While families suffer and promises of pharmaceutical breakthroughs keep coming up short, investigative journalist Charles Piller’s Doctored shows that we’ve quite likely been walking the wrong path to finding a cure all along—led astray by a cabal of self-interested researchers, government accomplices, and corporate greed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Extremely thorough work
- De J. Piper en 04-22-25
De: Charles Piller
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Cerebral Entanglements
- How the Brain Shapes Our Public and Private Lives
- De: Allan J. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.
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Original Sins
- The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
- De: Eve L. Ewing
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Eve L. Ewing
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for educators and everyone!
- De Alonna en 05-06-25
De: Eve L. Ewing
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Stuck
- How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
- De: Yoni Appelbaum
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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In this illuminating debut, Yoni Appelbaum, historian and journalist for The Atlantic, shows us that this idea has been under attack since reformers first developed zoning laws to ghettoize Chinese Americans in nineteenth-century Modesto, California. The century of legal segregation that ensued—from the zoning laws enacted to force Jewish workers back into New York’s Lower East Side to the private-sector discrimination and racist public policy that trapped Black families in Flint, Michigan to Jane Jacobs’ efforts to protect her vision of the West Village.
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5 out of 5 stars
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land of opportunity
- De Anonymous User en 03-16-25
De: Yoni Appelbaum
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Mindmasters (Anna Caputo version)
- The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
- De: Sandra Matz
- Narrado por: Anna Caputo
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important book!! Very well written!! Empowering!
- De onili en 02-03-25
De: Sandra Matz
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The Moral Circle
- Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
- De: Jeff Sebo
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritize humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. As a result, we use hundreds of billions of vertebrates and trillions of invertebrates every year for a variety of purposes. We also plan to use animals, AI systems, and other nonhumans at even higher levels in the future. Yet as the dominant species, humanity has a responsibility to ask: Which nonhumans matter, how much do they matter, and what do we owe them in a world reshaped by human activity and technology?
De: Jeff Sebo
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Black Pill
- How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
- De: Elle Reeve
- Narrado por: Elle Reeve
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not surprised by the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. With years of in-depth research and on-the-ground investigative reporting under her belt, Reeve was aware of the preoccupations of the online far right and their journey from the computer to QAnon, militias, and racist groups. At the same time, Reeve saw a parallel growth of counterforces, with citizen vigilantes using new tools and tactics to take down the far right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story — uneven performance
- De SSG en 08-19-24
De: Elle Reeve
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Character Limit
- How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
- De: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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The billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundreds of millions of screens around the world, unleashing raw collective emotion like nothing else before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Depressing but engrossing
- De Jason Jablonski en 10-25-24
De: Kate Conger, y otros
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Copaganda
- How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
- De: Alec Karakatsanis
- Narrado por: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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"Copaganda" is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970—despite record low crime rates—a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a good introduction to propaganda
- De Anonymous User en 05-16-25
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How the World Eats
- A Global Food Philosophy
- De: Julian Baggini
- Narrado por: Julian Baggini
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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The need for a better understanding of how we feed ourselves has never been more urgent. In this wide-ranging and definitive book, philosopher Julian Baggini expertly delves into the best and worst food practices in a huge array of different societies. His exploration takes him from cutting-edge technologies, such as new farming methods, cultured meat, GM and astronaut food, to the ethics and health of ultra processed food and aquaculture, as he takes a forensic look at the effectiveness of our food governance, the difficulties of food wastage, and the effects of commodification.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting topic well explained
- De John J.R. en 06-03-25
De: Julian Baggini
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Wild Faith
- How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
- De: Talia Lavin
- Narrado por: Talia Lavin
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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From school boards to the Supreme Court, Christian theocracy is ascendant in America—and only through exploring its motivations and impacts can we understand the crisis we face. In Wild Faith, Lavin fearlessly confronts whether our democracy can survive an organized, fervent theocratic movement, one that seeks to impose its religious beliefs on American citizens.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rough listen
- De Nick en 12-10-24
De: Talia Lavin
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Empire of AI
- Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
- De: Karen Hao
- Narrado por: Karen Hao
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Large focus on individuals' perceived social issues
- De Alice Thompson en 05-28-25
De: Karen Hao
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The Contrarian
- Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
- De: Max Chafkin
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t burn a credit.
- De John en 09-27-21
De: Max Chafkin
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The Return of Great Powers
- Russia, China, and the Next World War
- De: Jim Sciutto
- Narrado por: Jim Sciutto
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN’s air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a “1939 moment.” History never ended—it barely paused—and the global order as we have known it is now gone. Great powers are reinvigorated and determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as it escalates, this new order will affect everyone across the globe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Douglas Peifer en 03-14-24
De: Jim Sciutto
well researched and communicated
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Interesante
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More of a screed than an analysis
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