Larson jokingly followed up her own tweet with a seeming reference to the newspaper's tagline, "Democracy dies in darkness," which was taken up in the aftermath of Donald Trump's first presidential win in 2016.

"There’s no democracy in space," the New Yorker writer quipped.

Larson's has an impressive portfolio at the magazine, but the fact that she's not naming her source makes it impossible to know which powerful Bezos acquaintance she's referring to — or what Bezos' secretive personal reasons may be, for that matter.