Twitter bans fake Amazon worker accounts posting anti-union messages

As a union vote by Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, drew to a close this weekend, several Twitter accounts appearing to belong to warehouse workers at the company posted cheerful messages about work contentment at Amazon.

"Unions are valuable tools at companies that don't provide good pay and benefits like Amazon does. We simply don't need them here," the account @AmazonFCDarla posted on Sunday, according to several media reports. In another tweet, the account said "a lot of the people here who want unions are...let's just say not team players LOL." The account was less than a month old and its profile photo was computer-generated, the tech news site Gizmodo noted. Another account with an AI-generated photo, @AmazonFCLulu, posted a tweet mocking stories of Amazon employees forced to relieve themselves in bottles because they don't have enough time to use the bathroom on their breaks, Vice reported. "I'm beginning to worry that there's a problem with UTIs across the country, given how frequently many of you need a bathroom break?" the account tweeted, per Vice.