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As White House Press Secretary under Donald Trump,

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been accused of lying to
cover for the President more than once. Now people on
Twitter don’t believe her story about Amazon’s Echo and
Steph
Bazzle Alexa allowing her child to order toys without permission
— and they’re telling her that, true or not, Sanders should
have posted to a personal account, not a government one.

Sarah Sanders took over the official @PressSec account

when she took the job, and has used it primarily to
promote the President’s policies and to share official
statements. However, this isn’t the first time Sanders has
used her official account for something personal. On New MUST READS
Year’s Eve, she used it to address her father, former
Governor Mike Huckabee, and his role in babysitting sick
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Sanders’ tweet addressing Amazon seems to have been

taken differently, though, perhaps because it coincides Twitter Security
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with Trump’s history of lashing out at Amazon CEO Jeff
Access To Every Single
Bezos, or perhaps just because it’s a consumer complaint,
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On Sunday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that her 2- Trump-Bannon Feud
year-old child had accidentally ordered a $79.99 Batman
toy by yelling “Batman!” into the Amazon Echo device
repeatedly.

Sarah Sanders
@PressSec

Alexa, we have a problem if my 2 year old can order a

Batman toy by yelling "Batman!" over and over again
into the Echo
6:09 PM - Jan 14, 2018
5,713 3,441 13,913

The first problem? A virtually identical story went viral TRENDING STORIES
almost exactly a year ago, and Amazon told Adweek at the
time that a true accidental purchase as Sanders describes
was very unlikely.

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The second problem, for many of Sarah Huckabee

Sanders’ Twitter followers, is that whether or not her
Alexa story is true, they say it doesn’t belong on her
official account.

Sarah Sanders @PressSec 22h

Alexa, we have a problem if my 2 year old can order a
Batman toy by yelling "Batman!" over and over again
into the Echo pic.twitter.com/7uF0d2fmD8

Denise Geelhart
@jayhawkmommy

Shouldn't you be tweeting something like this from your

personal account? You aren't very professional, are
you?
11:19 PM - Jan 14, 2018
3 5 60

Sarah Sanders @PressSec 22h

Alexa, we have a problem if my 2 year old can order a
Batman toy by yelling "Batman!" over and over again
into the Echo pic.twitter.com/7uF0d2fmD8

IAmTheStorm

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@traciemom

Alexa, can you track @PressSec inappropriate use of

an official Twitter account? Thanks.
6:11 PM - Jan 14, 2018

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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

The public was also very quick to call out Press Secretary
Sanders for going after a company her boss has previously
attacked.

Sarah Sanders @PressSec 22h

Alexa, we have a problem if my 2 year old can order a
Batman toy by yelling "Batman!" over and over again
into the Echo pic.twitter.com/7uF0d2fmD8

nwhepcat
@nwhepcat

How very interesting that you use your official Twitter to

disparage a company that your boss has massive
problems with because Jeff Bezos also owns the
Washington Post. Do you get a bonus for that?
#whatethics?
11:36 PM - Jan 14, 2018
1 6 51

Sarah Sanders @PressSec 22h

Alexa, we have a problem if my 2 year old can order a
Batman toy by yelling "Batman!" over and over again
into the Echo pic.twitter.com/7uF0d2fmD8

45 Polemic
@45Polemic

The only surprise here is she didn’t call it the WaPo-

Alexa.
7:28 PM - Jan 14, 2018

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Trump’s own most recent Twitter attack on Amazon was

almost three weeks ago, when he asserted that the U.S.
Postal Service was losing money due to not charging
Amazon enough for package delivery — though the postal
service is a government agency, not a for-profit company,
and Quartz reports that package delivery actually was one
of the boosted revenue sources for the USPS this year.

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing

many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon
and others so little to deliver their packages, making
Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer?
Should be charging MUCH MORE!
11:04 AM - Dec 29, 2017

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Despite tweeting many times since the Amazon Echo

complaint, Sarah Sanders has not responded to
accusations of making up a false story, questions about
whether her official account was the place for a personal
complaint, or queries about whether Trump’s views on
Amazon influenced her post. She did not tag Amazon’s
official Twitter account, customer support account, or
Echo account to request a response, and hasn’t said
whether she was able (or tried) to cancel the order.
However, Time published advice last year to prevent
children from using the Echo to make accidental or
intentional purchases without permission.

If Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ toddler is making purchases,

Amazon (through the Time article linked above) advises,
she can go into her app settings and turn off voice
ordering, or set a confirmation code that would be
required to complete a purchase.

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