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It's politics but the only reason Trump mentions Amazon in that way is because of the association of Bezos and the Washington Post.


I don't see Facebook being much different though. Zuckerberg's politics probably aren't all that different from Bezos', and Facebook's control over the news could easily catch Trump's attention in a bad way, especially if they really follow through with cracking down on "fake news", which (let's be honest), bipartisan problem though it might be, helped/helps Trump's side a lot more than the other one.


The Washington Post is one of the leading journalism sources in the investigations of Trump connections to Russia, Facebook just puts everyone into an echo chamber. Facebook does not meet the minimal standard of being a threat to Trump in some way that I implied but did not spell out. There is minimal chance of Facebook cracking down on fake news - historically Facebook showed how much of spine they had when they crumbled at the first sign of criticism from conservatives about Facebook's program to use real people to curate stories and the employees were spiking stories aimed at conservatives that were fake.


FB like twitter is an asset for Trump. Though if Zuckerberg runs for president We might see some FB needs to be regulated tweets.




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