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A key thing this headlines leaves out, and many people seem to be making the wrong assumption about, is that Amazon is the one who requested these accounts be d

A key thing this headlines leaves out, and many people seem to be making the wrong assumption about, is that Amazon is the one who requested these accounts be deleted because these fake accounts were not created by Amazon. In particular, the AmazonFCdarla account at the center of this mess was actually created by a “comedian” who was trying to make Amazon look bad: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/3/31/22359338/amazon-darla-anti-union-worker-bessemer-alabama-comedian-parody https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/3/31/22359338/ama...

tweetle_beetle 6y ago
Fair enough, but there is a very clear trend that informs the assumptions. This "mess" would only have been the tip of the iceberg of anti-union activities. I would not be surprised if they had been manipulating social media in a more subtle way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26635652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26635652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20602962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20602962 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26010662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26010662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25189167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25189167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14566059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14566059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26268147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26268147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700936