550+ Amazon Employees Pressuring Leadership To Cut Advertising Ties With Breitbart [View all]
"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."
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