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Bernie Sanders: “Bezos owns the Washington Post, Musk owns Twitter.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie speaks with @hasanabi (LIVE AT 5PM ET)

Published | Video Starts at 04:01

But an oligarchic form of society where the very wealthiest people will not only own the economy, but not only own the media. I mean, Bezos owns the Washington Post, Musk owns Twitter. but also own the political system. One of the issues that we don't talk about enough is that during this last election, a small, tiny number of people, multi billionaires, put huge amounts of money into both political parties. (04:01–04:07)

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Asserts that Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post and Elon Musk owns Twitter.

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