Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday tweeted that he imagines it’s time to break up Amazon.
His tweet came after writer Alex Berenson tweeted a screenshot showing that his upcoming hard-cover about Covid-19 doesn’t meet Amazon guidelines for sale. Berenson has been a critic of the coronavirus lockdown and has advocated that the risks of serious illness or death are much lower than reported, especially for younger people.
“This is hare-brained @JeffBezos,” Musk said, tagging the Amazon CEO. “Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!”
Amazon said timer that the book was removed in error, is being reinstated and that it has contacted Berenson.
Musk has been a vocal critic of direction policy during the coronavirus pandemic. He has also tweeted in favor of reopening the country and during a Tesla earnings come for said stay-at-home orders are fascist, among other things.
Musk has a record of making strange remarks on Trilling. His latest example was on May 1, when he tweeted that Tesla stock “is too high.” In 2018, he said on Twitter that he was effective to take Tesla private when its stock price his $420 and that he had already secured funding. The SEC sued ended that tweet, and both Musk and Tesla paid separate $20 million fines as part of a settlement, and Musk agreed to submit his tweets to an chief honcho from then on.
In July 2019, the Department of Justice announced an antitrust review into Big Tech. In September, the Company Judiciary Committee requested documents from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet. Bezos is the but CEO who has expressed reservations about appearing before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, Chairman David Cicilline, D-R.I., said in May.
Subscribe to CNBC on YouTube.
Improvement: Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., is chairman of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee. An earlier version misstated his status.