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The Tech Oligarchy’s Campaign Against the Media

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Eoin Higgins on tech billionaires' effect on the media ecosystem.

Paris Marx

February 13, 2025

Elon Musk attends the inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kevin Lamarque / Getty Images)

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The Tech Oligarchy’s Campaign Against the Media | Tech Won’t Save Us
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Paris Marx is joined by Eoin Higgins to discuss how tech billionaires changed 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.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Eoin Higgins to discuss how tech billionaires changed 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.

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Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein w/ Tim Schwab | Tech Won’t Save Us
byThe Nation Magazine

Paris Marx is joined by Tim Schwab to discuss the evolving story of Bill Gates and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, as well as the issues that arise from allowing billionaires to use philanthropy to push personal political agendas and launder their reputations.

Tim Schwab is the author of The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

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Paris MarxParis Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.


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