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Some Saudis want to boycott Amazon in response to The Washington Post's coverage of Jamal Khashoggi's murder

"Boycott Amazon" was trending on Twitter in Saudi Arabia for several hours on Sunday.

  • Saudis are calling for a boycott of Amazon and its regional subsidiary Souq.com in response to The Washington Post's coverage of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
  • Thousands of people on Twitter in Saudi Arabia echoed those calls for a boycott in order to jab Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post and is the founder and biggest shareholder in Amazon.
  • People were apparently angry about The Post's ongoing coverage of Khashoggi's murder, and viewed it as an attack on the Kingdom.

Saudis are calling for a boycott of and its regional subsidiary Souq.com in response to The Washington Post's coverage of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

Thousands of people on Twitter in Saudi Arabia echoed those calls for a boycott in order to jab Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post and is the founder and biggest shareholder in Amazon. Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last month, was a columnist at The Washington Post.

"Boycott Amazon" was the top trending hashtag on Twitter in Saudi Arabia for several hours on Sunday, according to Bloomberg. Users appeared to be angry at The Post's ongoing coverage of Khashoggi's murder, and viewed it as an attack on their Kingdom's policies. Many were notably upset by an op-ed from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan published on Friday which blasted Saudi officials for trying to "cover up" Khashoggi's killing.

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The Post's editorial board has repeatedly called for transparency in the investigations surrounding Khashoggi's October death, and has published gruesome details about the murder citing information from Turkish officials.

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Some also posted about canceling their Amazon or Souq accounts. Influential users referred to Western media coverage of Khashoggi's case as a "media war," Bloomberg reported, while other tweets appeared to be automated or copied and pasted.

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Some users mocked the boycott campaign against Amazon, which recently became the second US company to achieve a $1 trillion market cap.

The Post cited an anonymous Turkish official as saying authorities found biological evidence in the consulate garden that supported the theory.

“Khashoggi’s body was not in need of burying,” the official said, according to The Post.

Earlier theoriesfloated that Khashoggi’s body was wrapped up in some kind of fabric and given to a local Turkish co-conspirator.

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