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Mr. Book just finished Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left, by Eoin Higgins.

This book will be released on February 4, 2025.

This book examines former liberal online writers, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, who have subsequently turned into right-wingers. The book discusses how they were lured by the amount of money they could make by switching sides and also how their transition was also triggered by some petty disputes.

While there was an occassional interesting story in the book, mostly it just wasn’t that interesting. It could have been something that worked better as a set of online articles than as a full book.

I give this book a C. Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a C equates to 2 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

Mr. Book finished reading this on September 30, 2024.