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There's reports (source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezos-amazon-twitter-social-media https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/m

There's reports (source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezos-amazon-twitter-social-media https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezo...) that Bezos got mad that the media department wasn't doing enough to combat the "outright lies" spread by the media about Amazon working conditions, which apparently spurred the latest tweets from the AmazonNews account. Seems to be a self inflicted wound from ego. Edit: Source requested

inetknght 6y ago
> There's reports that [citation needed]
- kaesar14 6y ago
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezos-amazon-twitter-social-media https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezo... Added
  - derg 6y ago
    It's also literally in the Intercept article with a link to the story lol: > According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had recently conveyed disappointment to Amazon officials that the company was not pushing back against criticisms that he considered misleading.
    - kaesar14 6y ago
      Whoops..
      - derg 6y ago
        ha i meant to reply to the person asking for a citation but also another one you can add into your post.
- deleted 6y ago
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- josefresco 6y ago
  https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter-bernie-sanders-jeff-bezos-union-alabama-elizabeth-warren https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter...
jaywalk 6y ago
The article mentions this. And I can understand Bezos getting upset (although the "lies" may be more truthful than he thinks) but the way they chose to respond was worse than doing nothing at all.
- derg 6y ago
  hell hath no fury like a displeased business tyrant imagine getting that mad as like the richest person in the goddamned world.
- anonymousab 6y ago
  You could view it as Bezos or Amazon simply coming to terms with the fact that they are not subject to any rules of decorum, or at any risk from ever failing due to their public actions. That they, as the mega corp, have reached the point of being above society and have no need to be polite or conform to inconvenient social norms anymore.
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anchpop 6y ago
If you feel that lies are being spread about you and you try to correct the record, how is that a self-inflicted wound from ego? Isn’t that what anyone would do?
- kaesar14 6y ago
  If you're a person, sure. If you're a business and you have a good amount of Congress in your pocket, have near infinite wealth, and get away with a myriad of abuses against your employees, why draw the ire of the public with rude comments against sitting Congressmen and Congresswomen? Do you think these comments serve to further Amazon's goals, or have they hurt? It's clear to me as well that Amazon's replies were outright lies - they are making their employees defecate and urinate into bottles, and they do get away with not paying / underpaying taxes. They're not even correcting the record, they're just lying more.
  - anonymousab 6y ago
    >why draw the ire of the public Because that ire is powerless and asserting dominance over society is a series of shifts like this. They're going to tell people what their version of reality is, and people will have to accept it; There will be no comeuppance, and alternate realities and truths are to be forcefully disregarded whenever that's more convenient than ignoring them.

inetknght 6y ago

> There's reports that [citation needed]

kaesar14 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezos-amazon-twitter-social-media https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezo... Added
- derg 6y ago
  It's also literally in the Intercept article with a link to the story lol: > According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had recently conveyed disappointment to Amazon officials that the company was not pushing back against criticisms that he considered misleading.
  - kaesar14 6y ago
    Whoops..
    - derg 6y ago
      ha i meant to reply to the person asking for a citation but also another one you can add into your post.
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josefresco 6y ago
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter-bernie-sanders-jeff-bezos-union-alabama-elizabeth-warren https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/3/28/22354604/amazon-twitter...

jaywalk 6y ago

The article mentions this. And I can understand Bezos getting upset (although the "lies" may be more truthful than he thinks) but the way they chose to respond was worse than doing nothing at all.

derg 6y ago
hell hath no fury like a displeased business tyrant imagine getting that mad as like the richest person in the goddamned world.
anonymousab 6y ago
You could view it as Bezos or Amazon simply coming to terms with the fact that they are not subject to any rules of decorum, or at any risk from ever failing due to their public actions. That they, as the mega corp, have reached the point of being above society and have no need to be polite or conform to inconvenient social norms anymore.
- deleted 6y ago
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anchpop 6y ago

If you feel that lies are being spread about you and you try to correct the record, how is that a self-inflicted wound from ego? Isn’t that what anyone would do?

kaesar14 6y ago
If you're a person, sure. If you're a business and you have a good amount of Congress in your pocket, have near infinite wealth, and get away with a myriad of abuses against your employees, why draw the ire of the public with rude comments against sitting Congressmen and Congresswomen? Do you think these comments serve to further Amazon's goals, or have they hurt? It's clear to me as well that Amazon's replies were outright lies - they are making their employees defecate and urinate into bottles, and they do get away with not paying / underpaying taxes. They're not even correcting the record, they're just lying more.
- anonymousab 6y ago
  >why draw the ire of the public Because that ire is powerless and asserting dominance over society is a series of shifts like this. They're going to tell people what their version of reality is, and people will have to accept it; There will be no comeuppance, and alternate realities and truths are to be forcefully disregarded whenever that's more convenient than ignoring them.