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Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals — The Guardian

Leaked messages suggest Uber executives were at the same time under no illusions about the company’s law-breaking, with one executive joking they had become “pirates” and another conceding: “We’re just fucking illegal,” according to the report by Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis and Lisa O’Carroll.

Here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign

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