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Tesla's Musk Calls for Amazon Breakup After a Covid-19 Book Rejected

Published 06/04/2020, 02:25 PM
Updated 06/04/2020, 02:45 PM
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By Yasin Ebrahim

Investing.com - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said it was time to "break up" Amazon after the e-commerce giant refused to sell former New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reporter Alex Berenson's book on the coronavirus pandemic.

Berenson's book, "Unreported Truths about Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates," which questions the overarching coronavirus narrative, failed to comply with its guidelines, Amazon said.

In a tweet calling for the break up of Amazon, Musk said monopolies are "wrong."

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) was largely flat on the day. Tesla fell 1.3%.

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People are smart, need to see all kinds and sources of information, and they will sort out the facts. Censorship is always done by "someone" who thinks he or she knows more than anyone else, which often is simply bias. Censorship is completely wrong. "Narratives" created by media news outlets is completely wrong. "Narratives" are simply an assembly of statements to create an impression or image. The public doesn't need these constructs. All we need is independent reporting of disparate facts, unencumbered by comments or opinions, from different sources. We can figure it out. "Narratives," simply because they are created and assemble by someone, always contain bias. Toss this lot of "information providers" in the garbage. We are better off without all of them.
Hardly think this is an exercise of monopolistic power. Lol. The publisher has a plethora of publishing opportunities in this age of social media and will be delighted to Amazon and Musk for the free publicity! What I will say is that people rushing to get books out are very likely seeking to take advantage of the climate of anger, fear, concerns and culture wars. The true facts and verdict on Covid 19 will established years from now, not in the midst of the pandemic.  We are only at the end of Chapter 1 of this book!
these stats would have been very different without lockdowns, lots of ppl forgetting that.
Agree 100%
you'r all the same, just a mix of cancerogenic spices, you all fall under xopyright breaches as you are just copies of humans
im honestly glad you arent
I can't stand Musk
As soon as the narrative is different from the libs even if it's true, they shut it down. Freedom of speech only applies one way. Disgusting what this country has become.
Why is it that anything contrary to the liberal... socialist... globalist point of view, covid, is systematic being censored. Facebook, YouTube, Google and Amazon all have an agenda that will not be good for us, me, and you. Wake up people, you're being played.
If we were to close down every publisher who ever turned down a book, they'd all be closed down.
After all of 20 years experimace in life of business and trade stock i can assure you one fact ( trust market and not ppl)
Musk doesn't care about the book or Amazon. He just want to be part of news cycle with some new everyday.
i love elon musk, glad to see another person red pilled against the lies and deceit of the democrat party and their globalist masters
Ameraikkka
where's free speech?
If the book is good enough it'll be sold in other places and his own website
100% Agree! We need to re-elect our President, take back the house, and proceed with the Google/YouTube and Amazon breakups. It's time to right this ship!
 guess you missed the new covid success story - 109k now dead - trump was right it would magically disappear in april - err well guess that was wrong - so is your claim! Most, Ignorant, incompetent and corrupt president ever - MAGA 2020 baby MAGA 2020 Biden in a landslide!
yep
lol... You all think you have say on who runs things. Your vote doesn't matter, banks rule the world and Social Justice and Political Correctness is a mass media construct to yeah you simpletons to obey.... lol... keep arguing while the elite steal billions
Reuters is part of the scam
100% Correct. Reuters is deplorable.
musk is right.. amazon is too much of a monopoly
y would anyone want to support this big brain and go out to buy his auto when 55 miles per gallon is the norm for a Prius.
Well Mr Musk you're not any different when you hand over key battery technology to the Chinese. all they're doing is building better military equipment. there are many other countries that are not acidic and arrogant to us. please tweet about that.
Should the litmus test for any book going forward be that it fits the existing narrative. very scary.
Of course not. But that's not what the litmus test was in this case, either.
Ok.. For those that can't read.. Amazon SELLS books. This has nothing to do with publishing. And the freedom you keep whining about means Amazon doesn't have to sell it if they don't want to.
false amazon offers publishing services for authors to publish books on an "on order" basis. it's a way to circumvent the big publishers, and allow for the common dude to write something that can be purchased by the next common dude. you can also have them make you an album for your newest hit song. I believe it's called books on demand and cd on demand. you should fact check your nonsense before you try to ***on everybody.
Yes, you missed the point. It's true that Amazon doesn't have to sell it but when they are a monopoly, there is nobody else to sell your book. Kind of making them book gods.
They are censoring a respected Best selling author. if you don't see that you obviously are part of the left wing, Socialist order trying to Undermine our Constitution.
As usual. His wording is a bit crude but in essence he is again right. What if Bezos decides tomorrow to halt all book sales which explains evolution?
well, evolution is false.
Then you buy evolution books elsewhere.
you buy somewhere else
Tesla stock -1,3%. Way to go. I was saving for a Tesla. But after his current appearances, no way. Think I’ll buy a Nio and have amazon ship it to me
 some investors have principles
we just accepted the premise that you were saving for an automobile. a car is a bad investment.
 true. But the human in me sometimes is irrational
This guy destroyed my dream of wanting to buy a Tesla. I understand why Tesla stock went down. I think smoking pot has done something to his brain. If he keeps this up, it will destroy his company.
it's OK when you move to China to join your brethren you can buy the one they make.
He's crazy enough to be a great president!
We should expect 700 000 new cases in US rioters
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