AI answer to Q--when did Jeff Bezos buy Washington Post

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Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post in August 2013 for $250 million. Bezos is the founder of Amazon.

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Bezos transferred ownership of The Washington Post to Nash Holdings LLC, his private investment company.

Bezos has been described as a "hands-off owner" of the paper.

Bezos has said he wants to make reading the Post a "daily ritual" and to shift the paper to a more digital focus.

Within three years of Bezos's purchase, the paper's web traffic doubled and it became profitable.

Some say that Bezos's success with the Post is due to his long-term thinking, technological talent, and business brilliance.

Bezos has also been criticized for restricting the Post's opinions page and for undermining his own motto that “Democracy Dies in Darkness”.