HOWARD KURTZ: Bezos bashes Biden, Musk signals Twitter deal in trouble
Biden’s targeting of Amazon is no accident. One report says the e-commerce giant has paid a federal tax rate in the last four years of 5.1 percent on $78 billion in income in the U.S. Who wouldn’t like that rate? And Pro Publica has reported that Bezos personally paid no income tax in 2007 and 2011.
But now Musk has tweeted that"this deal cannot move forward" without more information on the bots. He said the spam accounts could be as much as 20 percent, and when one user suggested more than half the accounts were fake, Musk retweeted it:"Exactly." Twitter insists its figures are accurate. CEO Parag Agrawal put up a detailed explanation of its calculations and said the firm had shared an"overview of the estimation process with Elon a week ago."SpaceX founder Elon Musk smiles at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.of a middle finger. But the grossness was also funny. And it helps explain why Musk has 90 million Twitter followers and Bezos has 4.3 million.
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