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The Twitter accounts of some of the world’s most powerful people, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Michael Bloomberg were compromised earlier today, with hackers using their access to tweet out a Bitcoin scam. Millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin have reportedly been transferred to the hackers.

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan demanded Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey disclose documents and information relating to the social media giants’ censorship practices, the decision to fact-check President Donald Trump, and flagging the president’s tweets as abusive behavior, according to a document obtained by Breitbart News.

The CEOs of major tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook have reportedly agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee as part of an investigation into anticompetitive conduct in the internet economy that will be scheduled in late July.

Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah wrote Sunday white women “are lucky” that  “[we] are not calling for revenge,” making her statement in a subsequently deleted social media post.

Workers at e-commerce giant Amazon have called on the firm and its CEO, the world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, to address what they believe to be racial and social inequality at the progressive company.

Amazon has removed the first part of Killing Free Speech, a documentary about the threats to freedom of expression posed by Antifa and its allies in the media and Democrat parties. A second part of the documentary, focused on the power of Big Tech, will shortly be released.

Amazon has blocked Family Research Council, a Christian conservative nonprofit, from receiving contributions through its AmazonSmile program.

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly banned police agencies from using its facial recognition technology for one year in response to growing calls to sever ties with U.S. police departments.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Amazon is pledging its support to the Black Lives Matter movement with $10 million in funding for social justice advocacy while importing foreign workers over hiring qualified Americans. 

A recent investigation from ProPublica reveals that while brands have previously been able to bid for the top slot in Amazon’s search listings, the e-commerce giant has begun using the position for its own private-label items, raising antitrust concerns.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, scolded a customer in an email for saying “all lives matter” and said he fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter recently to state that it is “time to break up Amazon” escalating an ongoing rivalry between Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Amazon has reversed its refusal to publish an e-book from author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, a prominent critic of the ongoing Chinese virus lockdowns.

Amazon, the world’s dominant online distributor of books and e-books and the world’s leading online retailer, is censoring a book about the Chinese virus from lockdown critic and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson. Jeff Bezos and company gave Berenson a suggestion on how to adjust his approach: “Please consider removing references to COVID-19 for this book.”

Amazon announced this week that it is ending its two-dollar pay increase for warehouse workers instituted after the outbreak of the Chinese virus. Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has enjoyed a net worth increase of $32 billion since January.

E-commerce giant Amazon published a statement on Sunday stating that the company is “standing in solidarity with the Black community” in the “fight against systemic racism and injustice.”

According to a recent report, local news stations across the United States have run news segments scripted and produced by e-commerce giant Amazon. Unsurprisingly, the segments were overly positive about Jeff Bezos’ company and its employment practices.

The net worth of the United States’ billionaire class has increased by $434 billion during lockdown orders implemented by most states to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

According to a recent report, American billionaires have enjoyed a huge boost in net worth in the first two months of the Chinese virus pandemic, earning around $434 billion since March 19, when many states went into lockdown.

Amazon already ranks as the country’s No. 1 apparel retailer and owns the Whole Foods grocery chain. Now the e-commerce empire is reportedly looking to grow even bigger with a possible acquisition of JC Penney — the venerable department store chain that recently declared bankruptcy in the wake of the Chinese virus pandemic.

Former Google CEO and Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt is giving $4.7 million to NPR to expand the left-wing network’s reach in the Midwest and California with the creation of two newsrooms.

Amazon-owned live-streaming site Twitch has reportedly appointed a transgender “deer-girl” with links to the ADL to its “Safety Advisory Council.” The streamer, known as “FerociouslySteph” on the site, argues that voice chat in video games is a tool of oppression and that “a lot of you gamers are actually white supremacists.”

A startling new investigation has revealed that Amazon provides charitable funding to the controversial and hyper liberal Southern Poverty Law Center through the AmazonSmile customer giving program.

E-commerce giant Amazon reportedly refuses to make company CEO Jeff Bezos available for testimony in Congress, instead stating that it would “make the appropriate executive available” in response to requests from the House Judiciary Committee.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is reportedly on track to become the world’s first trillionaire, with a recent study showing that his net worth has grown an average of 34 percent over the last five years. The research predicts Bezos will become a trillionaire in 2026.

E-commerce giant Amazon will reportedly stop paying its warehouse workers an extra $2 per hour at the end of this month. One Amazon employee called the move “disgraceful,” claiming, “It just shows how very little regard Amazon has for its overworked employees.”

The Associated Press Style Guide, considered by many in journalism as the standard for style guidance, recently announced the proper language to refer to a “woman in a long-term sexual relationship with, and financially supported by a man who is married to someone else” is not “mistress.”

Tim Bray, a vice president at Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce giant Amazon, has resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of workers who have criticized the company over inadequate protections against the Chinese virus.

Amazon founder, Washington Post owner and world’s richest man Jeff Bezos has been called before Congress to address charges that Amazon has potentially criminally misled the public over its use of data from third-party sellers on the platform.

Amazon hid information of a coronavirus outbreak from employees at one of its distribution centers in New York City, said Chris Smalls, who was fired by Amazon after he blew the whistle on the outbreak at his warehouse and helped organize a walkout to protest the unsafe working conditions there. 

E-commerce giant Amazon has reported a surge in sales during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, but increased costs due to the pandemic will cost the company at least $4 billion in the second quarter, according to CEO Jeff Bezos.

E-commerce giant Amazon reportedly purchased thermal cameras to monitor workers’ temperatures during the Chinese virus pandemic from a Chinese firm blacklisted by the United States over allegations that it helped China detain and monitor Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.

According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon may have violated worker safety laws and New York State’s whistle-blower protections when it fired an employee who protested the company’s coronavirus response. The New York Times reports that New York Attorney General Leticia James.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, urging him to open a criminal antitrust investigation against Amazon for stifling competition.

In a recent report, the New York Times outlines how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become increasingly involved in the company’s response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic despite previously distancing himself from day-to-day operations.

The Republican Party should always abide by its core principles, and yet at the same time, it should return to its Lincolnian roots, becoming the avowed party of first responders, blue-collars, and other frontline workers—and joined by, of course, soldiers, homemakers, and believers.