Emmanuel Macron, Joe Biden, Mark Rute are some of the names that appear in the lobbying network created to expand the business of the mobility company, now exposed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The US company Uber devised an expansion strategy that used political lobbying with governments, but also illicit ways to ensnare authorities, reveals a paper by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released Sunday.
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The Uber Files investigation by ICIJ (the consortium’s acronym in English) – which involved 40 media outlets in 29 countries (Portugal is not on this list of media partners, although the Portuguese case was covered), analyzing more than 124,000 documents – concluded that between 2013 and 2017, the then CEO, Travis Kalanick, gave approval to a strategy that exploited violence against Uber drivers to promote the company’s image against taxi drivers and governments that created problems for its business.
Uber also created a complex web of lobbying that spread from media moguls to prime ministers to ministers, government officials and oligarchs, all so that the company could expand its business, according to the journalistic investigation that brought together nearly 200 journalists.
