Old news or not, this will affect urban mobility for years to come.
“To spread its message, Uber and an advisory firm compiled lists of more than 1,850 ‘stakeholders’—sitting and former public officials, think tanks and citizen groups—it had hoped to influence in 29 countries and the EU,” the ICIJ report says.
Kalanick also ordered “kill-switches” for company servers in each local headquarters to prevent authorities from seizing evidence from the offices. French President Emmanuel Macron, who was economy minister from 2014-16, reportedly “had brokered a secret ‘deal’ with its opponents in the French cabinet,” to open the country to the taxicab competition.Uber essentially calls this “old news.” Jill Hazelbaker, senior vice president for marketing and public affairs, said in a written statement: “There has been no shortage of reporting on Uber’s mistakes prior to 2017.
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