
Billionaire-owned media makes the “free-press” a mouthpiece for the ideology of the super rich. It ignores the urgency of the climate crisis, radicalizes readers, and actively promotes right-wing propaganda.
So here’s a quick rundown of billionaire-owned/controlled media outlets:
- Elon Musk, Twitter (with financial-aid from the Saudi billionaires)
- Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
- Rupert Murdoch, News Corp (Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, several Australian outlets)
- Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg
- Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post
- John Henry, The Boston Globe
- Glen Taylor, Star Tribune
- Patrick Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles Times
- Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Joe Mansueto, Inc. and Fast Company
- Laurene Powell Jobs, The Atlantic
- Marc Benioff, Time
- Chatchaval Jiaravanon, Fortune
- Cox Family, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Mortimer Zuckerman, US News & World Report
- Barbey Family, Village Voice
- Stanley Hubbard, Hubbard Broadcasting
- Carlos Slim Helu, The New York Times
- Warren Buffett, regional papers (~70)
- Lord Rothermere, The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Metro and the i
- The Barclay Brothers, The Telegraph and the Spectator
- Patrick Drahi, Libération and L’Express
- Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev, Novaya Gazeta, the Evening Standard, and The Independent
Billionaires also have collectives or consortiums – like the Economist, which is owned by the Agnelli family, the Cadburys (chocolate), the Rothschilds (banks) and the Schroders (banks), along with some staff and former employees.

So how does one escape the tyranny of Twitter? Here are a few articles to help you decide if Mastodon is worth moving to ( I have).
Begin your move to Mastodon by reading this. Here’s a list of servers to join. I’m here (still trying to figure it out).
The real question now is: how do we build a media network that actually serves the public interest?