Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that the newspaper’s opinion editor, David Shipley, “decided to step away” after Bezos’ decision to shift the opinion pages to emphasize “personal liberties and free markets.”

Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder who bought the Post in 2013, told Post employees about Shipley through a note on X.

“I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t ‘hell yes,’ then it had to be ‘no,'” Bezos said. “After careful consideration, David decided to step away.”

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