San Francisco/New York — Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday called for Amazon.com to be broken up, after an author complained on social media about being unable to self-publish a book via the world's largest online retailer.

“This is insane @JeffBezos,” Musk tweeted at Amazon’s CEO. Both men are billionaires and oversee competing space exploration companies on top of their duties at Tesla and Amazon. “Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!” Musk added in a second tweet...

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