Tech lords such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are among the richest humans who have ever
lived and have an enormous sway over the American political system but even that isn’t enough
for them. They also want a compliant media, one that echoes their ideas, doesn’t investigate
their business practices, and goes after their enemy. This is the subject of a new book by Eoin
Higgins: Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. I
talked to Eoin about two of the major figures in this story, Peter Thiel, a plutocrat who is eager
to abandon the human species and Matt Taibbi, a onetime anti-establishment voice who now
has become a standard reactionary.