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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was ruthlessly mocked on social media for his recent Instagram post showing him wearing a disco outfit as he celebrated the new year with his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez. “We had so much fun last night celebrating with

Amazon Alexa’s deadly recommendation that a 10-year-old girl touch a penny to the exposed prongs of an electrified power plug reportedly had its origins in a TikTok trend known as the “penny challenge” that encouraged young people to do the same thing.

An owner of an Amazon Alexa home assistant is claiming that the device issued a sick challenge to her 10-year-old daughter. In a video posted online, when the Amazon device was asked for a “challenge,” Alexa replied: “The challenge is simple: plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” tempting the child to electrocute herself.

According to a recent report, Amazon is aware that many owners of its Alexa devices are not using them after as little as two weeks of use. According to internal documents viewed by Bloomberg, as many as 25 percent of Amazon’s smart home assistants become expensive paperweights just weeks after being activated.

Amazon reportedly filed a patent recently that suggests its Ring doorbell cameras may soon be able to identify “suspicious” people by scanning their skin texture, walking style, and voice. This represents the latest in Amazon’s growing push into biometric data collection.

A recent report reveals that Amazon marketed a collection of Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings on its Chinese website two years ago. The Masters of the Universe made sure that no customer reviews or ratings were visible to Chinese consumers at the order of the communist party.

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly facing criticism and scrutiny by the families of workers killed and injured when an Illinois warehouse collapsed during a tornado over its safety policies.  The building collapse killed at least six Amazon employees, with the sister of one casualty saying: “I want them to answer for this, I want this to be a starting point of places taking the lives of their employees seriously and treating them as more than a number.”

The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union has criticized e-commerce giant Amazon, saying that workers should never have been asked to work during severe weather conditions that resulted in the roof of an Illinois warehouse collapsing, killing at least six workers.

Jeff Bezos responded to a tornado that resulted in the deaths of at least six people at an Amazon warehouse after its collapse in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday. Bezos acknowledged the tragedy after being slammed by social media users who commented on his initial silence.

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A new browser extension called Amazon Brand Detector reveals just how many products sold on Amazon are produced by brands that are owned by Amazon or are exclusive to the e-commerce Masters of the Universe.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved a new union election at one of Amazon’s Alabama warehouses this week. The warehouse workers voted against unionization in April, but following complaints to the federal agency, a revote has been ordered.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is donating $100 million to the Obama Foundation in the wake of Amazon clashing with the Biden administration over antitrust issues.

Amazon employees in 20 countries are reportedly preparing to strike on Black Friday as part of a campaign titled “Make Amazon Pay.”

E-commerce giant Amazon recently announced that it will no longer accept payments made with Visa credit cards issued in the UK, blaming the decision on high fees. Visa says that it is “very disappointed that Amazon is threatening to restrict consumer choice in the future.”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stated at a recent event that he believes will most future humans will not live on Earth and will think of the planet as a protected national park that they visit as a tourist attraction.

Amazon is being sued over crashes by drivers rushing to make deliveries while following the company’s schedule. While the e-commerce giant says it is not liable, one lawsuit blames Amazon’s algorithms for a crash that paralyzed an aspiring doctor.

Glen de Vries, the billionaire founder of Medidata Solutions who went to space alongside William Shatner aboard a Blue Origin rocket, has reportedly died in a plane crash.

Technology giant Amazon is pushing, through its lobbying organs, to keep its USPS shipping rates artificially low, an indirect taxpayer subsidy to the market-dominating online retailer that comes at the expense of both small businesses and other customers of the USPS mail service.

Amazon founder and alleged environmentalist Jeff Bezos has purchased a $78 million 14-acre private estate in Hawaii surrounded by dormant lava fields. He joins Mark Zuckerberg in investing in Hawaiian real estate as the Masters of the Universe seemingly takes over paradise

Jeff Bezos’ space exploration firm Blue origin has lost a lawsuit against NASA over a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a far-left British think tank dedicated to pushing internet censorship, has attempted to frame Breitbart News as the leading pusher of “climate change denial” on Facebook, only to be shot down by Facebook itself over its “flawed” methodology.

As 30,000 people flew into Glasgow, Scotland, over the past 48-hours to attend the COP26 climate conference, elite attendees chose to ignore the ample commercial services available and flew by private jet instead.

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos arrived at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on a $65 million private jet recently where he met with Britain’s Prince Charles to discuss the issue of climate change.

Amazon recently reported a surprising drop in profits in the third quarter that it expects to continue through the holiday quarter.

An Amazon employee group created by warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, announced that it aims to vote on unionization in the near future. The group said in a statement: “Workers are demanding Amazon to stop their union busting practices and allow workers to use their rights to organize towards collective bargaining without interference.”

In a recent letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, five members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee allege that the company’s top executives including founder Jeff Bezos misled or possibly lied to Congress about Amazon’s business practices.

A group representing millions of Indian retailers on Thursday demanded a government investigation of Amazon.com following a Reuters report that accused the online retail behemoth of manipulating search results to privilege its own knockoff brands over Indian retail merchandise.

According to a recent report, e-commerce giant Amazon purposefully ranks its own products above other higher-rated competitors on its platform. According to an investigation by the Markup, “We found that knowing only whether a product was an Amazon brand or exclusive could predict in seven out of every 10 cases whether Amazon would place it first in search results.”

A recent report claims that internal Amazon documents show that the company created knockoff items and manipulated search results to promote its own product lines in India.

According to a recent report, employees at Jeff Bezos’ space exploration firm Blue Origin allege that the company promotes a toxic “bro culture” that led to mistrust, low morale, and project delays.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s net worth has ballooned to $233 billion, zooming past Jeff Bezos and making him the richest man in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk commented on surpassing Bezos, saying: “I’m sending a giant statue of the digit ‘2′ to Jeffrey B., along with a silver medal.”

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Star Trek’s Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month — boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone. Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, Blue Origin, announced Monday that William Shatner will blast off from West Texas on Oct. 12.

According to a number of current and former employees of Jeff Bezos’ space exploration firm Blue Origin, the company is a “toxic” workplace.

Amazon has announced a new robot named Astro designed to make household tasks easier — all while using its AI-powered cameras and facial recognition tech to scan the faces of everyone in your home.

President Joe Biden referred to “trillionaires” not paying taxes on Friday, even though no American is worth a trillion dollars.