Falling For The Tech Bro Siren Song | Eoin Higgins | TMR
February 14, 2025
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as posted by the channelLive-streamed on February 5, 2025
Eoin Higgins, independent journalist, discusses his newly released book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left
Eoin Higgins then jumps right into his recent work unpacking the role the media – and Big Tech’s investment in alternatives – played in bolstering Tech Bros’ evolution into a Tech Br-oligarchy, looking particularly into the transitions into right-wing grifterdom made by supposedly idealistic, liberal-minded journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. Higgins explores how both of these journalists got their start as heavy critics of the Bush Administration, with Glenn playing a particularly important role in exposing their major abuses of the national security state, before the arrival of Obama in office seemingly began a slow shift away from the liberal media institutions they had been working hand-in-hand with – be they independent or mainstream – with Higgins importantly noting how their rhetorical disposition to the mainstream organizations (be they MSNBC or Fox News) was seemingly deeply tied to… how often they were invited on the show. After walking Sam and Emma through the ultimate departure of these two from the left with the mainstream liberal embrace of Russiagate and #MeToo, Eoin dives into their ultimate arrival in the media niche among the growing independent social media outlets, like Substack and Patreon, where they could publish work and cultivate a following outside of the mediasphere they’d felt so rejected by, with Big Tech backers like Marc Andreessen playing an important role in helping them thrive there, while also actively disrupting the mainstream media industry that was so keen on critiquing them. Wrapping up the interview, Eoin touches on the role Taibbi played in Elon Musk’s Twitter files, and what Big Tech’s successful media disruption can tell us about their ultimate goals for the US government.
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