Billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos claimed that newspaper endorsements are pointless to voters and only demonstrate bias, according to his Monday opinion article in The Washington Post, which he owns.

His remarks come after The Washington Posts shocking decision last week not to endorse a presidential candidate drew backlash online and led to a decrease in subscribers and multiple staff resignations . Bezos painted the decision as a response to the lack of trust in media among American readers.

Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election, Bezos argued. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias.

According to The Washington Post Guild , the paper had an endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris drafted before publisher and CEO William Lewis announced that the Post was returning to its roots.

The Post has regularly endorsed a candidate since 1976, when it designated support for Jimmy Carter as president.

Opponents of the decision have reasoned that no endorsement is, in fact, an endorsement of Trump.

Molly Roberts, who resigned from the papers editorial board, argued that not making an endorsement, particularly for Harris, is morally unsound.

Worse, our silence is exactly what Donald Trump wants: for the media, for us, to keep quiet, Roberts added.