Tech writer Eoin Higgins [recently] published Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. The main subjects of the bookfellow reporter Glenn Greenwald and myself"are [portrayed as] puppets controlled by Big Tech overlords such as Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks. Higgins's case against me concerns my involvement with the Twitter Files"a trove of the social media website's internal communications that Musk sent to reporters, including me, after he acquired the company in 2022. I took significant heat for my coverage, which included Twitter employees' deliberations about whether to suppress the report about Hunter Biden's laptop during the 2020 election. IRS agents made an unannounced visit to my home the day I testified in Congress about my findings, and delegate Stacey Plaskett falsely accused me of perjury and threatened to jail me. Despite this, Higgins says I sold out"literally"by working on the Twitter Files. He claims that I "fully dispensed with any pretense of challenging power" after having "cash[ed] in" with my "benefactor," Musk. I've never taken money from Musk or any other "tech billionaire on the right," as Higgins implies. The trend of casual defamation that prevails on social media"where pseudonymous accounts blithely accuse people of rape or pedophilia all day, every day"has seeped into the regular press, where "reckless disregard" has become the norm.