A lot of internal Uber documents were freely available.In total, more than 124,000 files were leaked — for
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Journalists who have studied the documents write that Ubercourted prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs, and media tycoons for his own benefit. In addition, the leak includes "emails and iMessages and WhatsApp messages between Uber's senior management.
In one of the articles written on the merged files,the company is said to have "used violent attacks" on drivers to advance its agenda. The BBC report focuses on French President Emmanuel Macron telling Uber's CEO that he could reform laws in the company's favor.
The leak also exposed emails from Uber's former head of global communications, Nairi Khurdajian, in which he writes, "Sometimes we get in trouble because we're just fucking illegal."