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We shouldn't forget that Bezos himself was the one who got blackmailed very recently. It wasn't a tech company that did it, but it was a right-wing media outle
by ENOTTY 6y ago
We shouldn't forget that Bezos himself was the one who got blackmailed very recently. It wasn't a tech company that did it, but it was a right-wing media outlet with an axe to grind.
- jkingsbery 6y agoI don't think the National Enquirer is a "right-wing media outlet," so much as a sleazy tabloid whose owner happened to be friends with Donald Trump. See e.g., https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-national-enquirer-covered-trump-in-the-90s/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-national-enquir..., in which the same owner tat tried to blackmail Bezos started publishing in 1999 "Why I should be President" articles from Donald Trump, during which time Trump was (briefly) a member of the Reform Party before he became a Democrat.