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by fallingknife 1845 days ago
Jeff Bezos owns the 2nd largest newspaper in the country, and now a major movie studio. I would say he qualifies.
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How has he used that newspaper to exert political control over the US?
How easily is that question answered?
Would you like a list of stories they decided not to run?
…yes? I’ve seen articles openly critical of Bezos in the WashPo and ones supportive of Amazon workers unionising.
He might not have used his newspaper, but AWS was instrumental in de-platforming Parler after the Jan 6 mutiny.
Johnny Depp would basically qualify under that definition.
According to Google his net worth is $150 million, so that is 0.1% of Bezos, and he owns 0 powerful companies to Bezos' 3. Not remotely in the same league.