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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) fired a verbal warning shot on Wednesday morning following the news of Amazon’s deal to purchase entertainment company MGM, pointing to Amazon’s status as a “monopoly platform” that already “owns e-commerce, shipping, groceries & the cloud.”

Last summer, Amazon announced a $10 million donation for “organizations supporting justice and equity,” including a donation directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist.

Amazon is reportedly closing in on a blockbuster deal to pay $9 billion for the storied Hollywood studio MGM. The acquisition would enlarge Amazon’s footprint in Hollywood and give it control over valuable movie titles including the James Bond and Rocky franchises, as well as numerous classics such as The Wizard of Oz.

Some of the largest delivery companies in the United States, including Amazon, Uber, and various food delivery firms, reportedly fell victim to a basic “fake driver” scam, according to a recent Justice Department complaint. The scam involved selling driver identities to others, meaning criminals could deliver customer’s food or drive them to the airport.

A recent report claims that e-commerce giant Amazon is in talks to purchase the film and TV studio MGM for about $9 billion dollars.

Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat who represents the state of Washington where Amazon’s world headquarters is located, is pushing for NASA to reopen a competition for third-party contractors to build its next lunar lander, after Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin lost out to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the competition for the contract last month.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has purchased a 417-foot superyacht that is so massive it requires its own “support yacht” with a helipad that will follow Bezos’ new $500 million toy wherever it sails.

A recent report from Vice’s Motherboard claims that Amazon delivery drivers are being asked to disable a driver safety system partway through their shifts, encouraging reckless driving in order to meet delivery quotas.

The Wall Street Journal published an essay Wednesday warning of Facebook’s “secret rules” used to police users’ accounts and remove “offensive” material.

Tuesday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) continued his push to break up big tech companies to put an end to monopolies.

Food Network star Guy Fieri has claimed that Jeff Bezos — founder of Amazon and the world’s richest man — didn’t contribute to a restaurant emergency relief fund that the celebrity chef created to help out-of-work cooks, waiters, and other workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

E-commerce giant Amazon released its first-quarter results on Thursday, reporting a 44  percent sales increase. The results blew analysts’ expectations out of the water. The Masters of the Universe say they expect their sales to continue to climb in the second quarter.

Jeff Bezos must explain why Amazon removed a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from its streaming service, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said.

The far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has said that Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming platform, should invest even more resources into censorship tools — even after the platform twice banned Donald Trump, first temporarily during the campaign season, and then permanently in January.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made a personal attack against Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on social media, mocking Bezos’ space exploration efforts by posting “can’t get it up (to orbit) lol.”

Amazon is reportedly testing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods, starting with a single store in Amazon’s home city of Seattle. The biometric system identifies not only the customer’s palm print but even the pattern of veins in their hand to identify them for payment processing.

Corporate America weighed in on the jury finding former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd.

The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union has reportedly filed challenges over the unsuccessful union vote at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, alleging that the company violated legal restrictions.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) will today introduce a bill targeting Big Tech monopolies, in particular the practice of favoring their own products and services in online marketplaces and search engines that they own, a practice that Amazon and Google are often accused of.

In his final letter to shareholders as Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos stated that the e-commerce giant must “do a better job for our employees,” following recent reports of poor working conditions at the company.

In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal outlines how tech giant Amazon uses its immense monopoly power to convince vendors in one market to interact with Amazon services in others.

Patrick Pizella and Alfredo Ortiz write in The Hill about the promise for workers’ rights of implied by the decision by Amazon workers in Alabama not to join the Retail Workers and Department Store Union, despite the clear wishes of progressives:

Amazon Prime’s new horror series, ‘Them,’ has met a storm of criticism for its extreme racial violence, including the murder of a black baby.

Yet another bookseller has followed Amazon’s lead in removing a bestselling book questioning the advisability of sex reassignment surgery.

Early vote counts at the Amazon warehouse facilities in Bessemer, Alabama, show workers voting overwhelmingly against forming a union.

Amazon-owned video streaming platform Twitch has unveiled a new policy of penalizing users based on their conduct off-platform as well as on-platform, creating a virtue test for any user wishing to use the popular streaming service.

Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel said Tuesday that American Big Tech companies do not consider themselves to be “American companies.”

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of multinational corporation Amazon, is endorsing President Joe Biden’s plan to hike the corporate tax rate after years of evading federal income taxes. 

According to a recent report, merchant groups representing thousands of small businesses are forming a national coalition called “Small Business Rising” to campaign for stricter antitrust laws in an effort to force e-commerce giant Amazon to spin off some of its business lines and stop selling its own products in competition with other brands and sellers.

Indiana Attorney General has begun investigations into five Big Tech corporations for censorship of conservative content involving Joe Biden’s nominee, Vanita Gupta. 

A recent report from the New York Times states that Amazon has been found to have illegally retaliated against two prominent internal critics by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Mehdi Hasan Show,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) warned of the “serious problem” posed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is one of the richest men in the world.

E-commerce giant Amazon has issued a surprising apology, promising to find a solution to the issue of its delivery drivers being forced to urinate in bottles due to a lack of bathroom breaks. In its apology, which is very rare for the e-commerce behemoth, Jeff Bezos’ company calls its statements on the matter an “own-goal.”

A recent report from Bloomberg reveals that Amazon has considered opening home goods and electronics discount stores in an effort to offload unsold items.

Amazon has joined the chorus of corporate leaders attacking Georgia’s election law by calling on states to “follow Virginia’s leadership,” instead. According to Amazon spokesperson and former Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney, “efforts to disenfranchise black people and other minorities continue to this day.”

The Internet Accountability Project (IAP) released a report showing big tech employees and corporate PACs contributed more than 12 times the money to Democrats than Republicans in 2020.