Employees Pressure Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos To Block All Advertising From “Hateful And Bigoted” Breitbart

Buzzfeed reports:

Inside Amazon, tensions are mounting as employees push management to stop running ads for Amazon products on Breitbart News. On March 22, a group of Amazon employees took issue with the company’s ads on Breitbart in an email to CEO Jeff Bezos and SVP Jeff Blackburn.

Entitled “Amazon Must Stop Advertising on Breitbart News,” the email included a petition opposing Amazon’s continued advertising on Breitbart, with some 564 signatures.

According to the email, an Amazon employee confronted Blackburn at the company’s March all-hands meeting about advertising on a site that the employee said “regularly publishes hateful and bigoted content.”

“What is it going to take for us to stop advertising on Breitbart News?” the employee asked, to applause from coworkers. Blackburn’s response, according to the email, was met with “utter silence.” He suggested that Amazon’s advertising relationship with Breitbart was complicated.

Amazon doesn’t advertise directly with Breitbart, but unless specifically blocked their ads will appear there via a third party service based on the reader’s browsing history and location. (Same here on JMG.)

According to the Twitter-based group Sleeping Giants, over 1800 companies have moved to block their ads from appearing on Breitbart.