https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3adqnk/ivermectin-promoting-group-is-profiting-from-the-amazon-smile-program

Once again, Amazon is allowing its customers to donate a portion of the cost of their purchases to a questionable organization; this time, it’s the ivermectin-promoting faux medical group Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). The FLCCC is leading promoter of the use of ivermectin as a preventative, treatment, or cure for COVID. All available evidence suggests that ivermectin does not work as a COVID treatment and serious, material harm and even deaths have resulted from its use in that context.

AmazonSmile is a charitable program that allows shoppers to pick an organization and have Amazon donate 0.5 percent of their purchase price; the donations come from the AmazonSmile Foundation, meaning that they’re tax deductible by Amazon, not by the shopper. A cynic would suggest that this is a convenient way for Amazon to score some extra tax writeoffs, and of course donate money to charity, but it’s also come with some significant public relations downsides.