Why you should delete Uber, and what to use instead<article>
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I deleted Uber from my phone last night, and I think you should too. Let me explain why.</p><h2>What happened</h2>
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On Monday,
BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith posted a dilly of a scoop, quoting Uber’s Senior Vice President of Business Emil Michael, who told a fancy dinner party of New York elite that Uber could spend $1 million to discredit its critics in the press, specifically PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy,
who has written about the company’s shady tactics and misogynistic culture. But Uber wouldn’t be spending $1 million on damage control or positive PR—Michael boasted that the company could hire opposition researchers to dig into journalists’ personal and family lives, and “prove a particular and very specific claim about [Lacy’s] personal life,” Smith wrote.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2848628/why-you-should-delete-uber-and-what-to-use-instead.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Why you should delete Uber, and what to use instead
