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HAB911

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Fri Apr 14, 2017, 07:44 AM Apr 2017

550+ Amazon Employees Pressuring Leadership To Cut Advertising Ties With Breitbart

"It is something we are looking ... at very regularly, we have our eyes on it," Amazon SVP Jeff Blackburn told Amazon employees, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.

Inside Amazon, tensions are mounting as employees push management to stop running ads for Amazon products on Breitbart News.

On March 22, a group of Amazon employees took issue with the company's ads on Breitbart in an email to CEO Jeff Bezos and SVP Jeff Blackburn. Entitled "Amazon Must Stop Advertising on Breitbart News," the email included a petition opposing Amazon's continued advertising on Breitbart, with some 564 signatures.

According to the email, an Amazon employee confronted Blackburn at the company’s March all-hands meeting about advertising on a site that the employee said "regularly publishes hateful and bigoted content."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/over-550-amazon-employees-are-pressuring-leadership-to-cut?utm_term=.unQnQZpmg#.owRBE9Xml

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550+ Amazon Employees Pressuring Leadership To Cut Advertising Ties With Breitbart (Original Post) HAB911 Apr 2017 OP
it will take more than employees to have an effect. This is the amazon twitter account beachbum bob Apr 2017 #1
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beachbum bob

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1. it will take more than employees to have an effect. This is the amazon twitter account
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 08:33 AM
Apr 2017


https://twitter.com/amazon


lets start voicing OUR objections by tweeting them to amazon
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