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More than a dozen Amazon workers are defending their employer on Twitter after a string of reports detailing bad working conditions at the company’s fulfillment centers.

But they’re not just tweeting out of loyalty to the company, although they say that’s a part of it. Amazon is paying them to do it.

TechCrunch first noticed the accounts after Twitter user @bornwithatail_ discovered some of the workers’ tweets. There are currently 15 known accounts, all bearing similar attributes. For example, each account uses the Amazon smile logo as its Twitter background, all have “FC Ambassador” and a little brown box emoji in their Twitter name, and every one of the accounts link to Amazon’s fulfillment center tour website. Read more…

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Finally, Tesla has a response.

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, the head of the Democratic National Committee, wrote to Elon Musk’s electric car company two months ago concerned about union busting and worker safety.

This week, Tesla decided to respond to Ellison’s concerns and doubled down on the health of Tesla’s employee-management relationship. Everything is honky-dory at Tesla according to Tesla.

Tesla and Elon Musk responded today to the letter Rep. Ellison sent asking questions about safety and allegations of union busting. Here’s the letter Elon sent: pic.twitter.com/lrGoPz5WKA

— Caroline O’Donovan (@ceodonovan) August 1, 2018 Read more…

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