WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Amazon.com social team bared its teeth this week to go after two big critics in Congress: Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Amazon first broke out on Wednesday with tweets from Dave Clark, executive director of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, who criticized Sanders for demanding a $ 15 minimum wage and supporting Amazon workers in Alabama, who they are thinking about unionization.
On Friday, the day Sanders met with Amazon workers in Alabama, Amazon News wrote on Twitter that Sanders’ home state for the Vermont minimum wage was $ 11.75. “Sanders would rather speak in Alabama than act in Vermont,” the company wrote on Twitter.
In his meeting, Sanders urged Amazon workers to vote for the union: “When you stand up and fight, you take here not just one of the strongest corporations in this country that you take on the richest individuals in the world. And you do it in an anti-union state. “
The company also followed Warren, who vowed on Twitter to “fight the union collapse.” And fight to break Big Tech so you’re not strong enough to defeat senators with stupid tweets. ”
She initially demanded that Amazon be split, along with other Big Tech giants, in 2019, when she ran for president.
Amazon called the tweet “extraordinary and revealing.”
“One of the most powerful politicians in the United States has just said that he will split an American company so that he can no longer criticize it,” Amazon wrote on Twitter.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither Sanders’ nor Warren’s offices responded immediately to a request for comment.
Maybe it’s not just Amazon that is losing patience with pressure from Washington.
At a congressional hearing on Thursday, Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, appeared frustrated with lawmakers asking yes or no to questions. During the hearing, Dorsey wrote on Twitter “?” with a poll asking Twitter users to vote “yes” or “no.”
Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice asked, “Mr. Dorsey, what do you gain, yes or no, in your Twitter account poll? ”
Dorsey told him he was winning “yes,” to which he replied, “Your multitasking skills are pretty impressive.”
Reporting by Diane Bartz; edited by Jonathan Oatis