Journalists say Amazon's PR team uses aggressive, manipulative, and sometimes outright deceptive tactics to intimidate and mislead reporters
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. Tweets: @alibreland , @mattrosoff , @willoremus , @danawollman , @tonyajoriley , @dellcam , @kevincollier , @papscun , and @sam_l_shead Tweets: Ali Breland / @alibreland : new: i spoke to a dozen journalists about the aggressive, manipulative and sometimes outright deceptive tactics that amazon's PR team uses to intimidate and mislead reporters, and by extension, the public. https://www.motherjones.com/ ... Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : Tech PR tactics 101. https://www.motherjones.com/ ... Will Oremus / @willoremus : When I wrote a carefully sourced deep dive on Amazon's surveillance tentacles, I was barraged w/ demands for corrections from *three* separate PR arms: Alexa, AWS, and Ring. Had to spend a whole day wrangling w/ them instead of writing my next story. https://www.motherjones.com/ ... Dana Wollman / @danawollman : “I do not appreciate being called... a liar,” she added in a follow-up email. Would love to know if this the particularly rude flack we've tussled with in the past. https://twitter.com/... Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley : Anecdotally, every tech reporter knows dealing with Amazon is a different ballpark. But @alibreland got some great insider info to support it https://www.motherjones.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Dell Cameron / @dellcam : when i saw my name in the lede i was like oh shit, but now reading all these other stories i feel like we should make tshirts https://www.motherjones.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : I love this story from @alibreland. Not everybody cares how tech news sausage gets made, but one of the toughest parts of the job is parsing the words of representatives of some of the most powerful companies in the world in a way that's fair for readers. https://www.motherjones.com/ ... Dan Papscun / @papscun : Genuinely freaked out by how creepy and personal the strategies laid out here are. This story should be required reading for labor/tech reporters. https://twitter.com/... Sam Shead / @sam_l_shead : They're not the only ones https://t.co/Jg5WNgpUHQ