The Los Angeles Post

BREAK IT UP

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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is calling for Amazon to be broken up.

“Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!” Musk tweeted.

Musk’s tweet was in response to former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson, who tweeted a screenshot showing that his upcoming book about COVID-19 doesn’t meet Amazon guidelines for sale.

Amazon later said that the book in question had been blocked in error and was now available in an e-reader edition for Amazon Kindle. Amazon said that the availability of the book was not due to Musk’s tweet, according to Reuters.

Both Musk and Berenson have been critical of coronavirus-related shutdowns.

Berenson has suggested that the risks of serious illness or death are much lower than reported, especially for younger people.