However, he assured June 2 that he would step back on Twitter for a while. But Elon Musk, the founding CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, couldn't resist picking up two concise messages on the platform on Thursday addressed to his great rival Jeff Bezos: "It's anything, @Jeff Bezos " adding: " It is time to dismantle Amazon. Monopolies are bad! ” This phrase was a reaction to a tweet from a former New York Times reporter , Alex Berenson, who explained that his book, The Unspoken Truths on Covid-19 and Containment,was refused by the content team of the Kindle platform, owned by Amazon, on the grounds that it did not comply with its rules. Jeff Bezos did not see fit to respond to Elon Musk's provocation.
The two titans have hated each other and have been biting each other on Twitter for several years now. Despite their common points - the desire to conquer space, the concerns of billionaires ... -, they are above all rivals through their companies SpaceX and Blue Origin. They clashed in 2013 for the use of the LC-39A launch complex at the Kennedy space center, then on a reusable rocket patent before the quarrel took on a more personal tone. In a tweet in 2019, Musk called Bezos a "copycat" ("imitator") while Bezos mocked his ambition to colonize Mars. This is the first time that Musk has directly attacked the economic positioning of Amazon, which still promises good discussions. Meanwhile, the case has allowed the book to be finally published. And its author to make a nice publicity stunt.
