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Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Do we know if this is a corporate social media team, or actual employees who volunteered? Many of the accounts claim to be warehouse workers. It's rare for a major corporation to lie about something like that so blatantly. I imagine that amazon employees didn't like the bad rep their company was getting for working conditions, and volunteered to respond on social media in an organized way. IF this is the case, then m…

So you really imagine a bunch of lowest paid blue collar workers came together, out of the goodness of their hearts, to help the richest man alive improve his company's public image?

They chose to work at Amazon, and most people don't second guess their own decisions. If amazon is evil it would reflect poorly on them for deciding to work there.

And again, it's incredibly rare for major corporations to tell easily verifiable falsehoods. I can't imagine that Amazon would instruct these people to lie about working on the warehouse floor. It's too big of a risk to their reputation and corporate goodwill for a very small reward.

You-know-who's razor here...the simplest explanation is most likely correct.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a comfy chair instead of a metal bench and glass instead of wire net makes cranes look a lot nicer than that concept art.

Aren't patent drawings supposed to show only the essential functional elements?

Maybe. I personally think it's silly. Still, that's where I think the critique comes from.

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post #15

I recently watched a Danish documentary about Israel, it’s a whole series on the Middle East, and one of the things they talked about in it was how Israel is never in the Danish media for anything positive. That same day I read an article about the youngest Dane to visit every country in the world, something he finished recently, talk about how there is peace and security in every country if you go to the right place…

If they wanted to do any of this, why are they only posting while getting paid, lying about who they are (many accounts have various different names used), and have limited guidelines on what they can say?

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post #35

I believe this article was triggered by this tweet: https://twitter.com/rulesobeyer/status/1161820065773182976?s...

That's like a god damned parody. A new response every time from a happy smiling human face. It's ok, Diana, we just want the truth to be heard, Diana, why don't you believe us Diana, I am treated well at work Diana, I am not beaten when I misbehave. Join us Diana. Join us and be free. Edit: oh my God. I made up the beatings comment on the spot. But one of the borg actually said something like this https://twitter.com…

His account is violating Twitter's impersonation policy. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-imper...

> The profile clearly states it is not affiliated with or connected to any similarly-named individuals or brands.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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post #65
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's like a god damned parody. A new response every time from a happy smiling human face. It's ok, Diana, we just want the truth to be heard, Diana, why don't you believe us Diana, I am treated well at work Diana, I am not beaten when I misbehave. Join us Diana. Join us and be free. Edit: oh my God. I made up the beatings comment on the spot. But one of the borg actually said something like this https://twitter.com…

His account is violating Twitter's impersonation policy. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-imper... > The profile clearly states it is not affiliated with or connected to any similarly-named individuals or brands.

What's Twitter's policy on using fake accounts with stock picture avatars for openly astroturfing?
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