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Title: Why you should delete Uber, and what to use instead Post by: HCK on November 19, 2014, 03:00:22 pm Why you should delete Uber, and what to use instead
<article> <section class="page"> <p> I deleted Uber from my phone last night, and I think you should too. Let me explain why.</p><h2>What happened</h2> <p> On Monday, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith posted a dilly of a scoop (http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-dirt-on-journalists), 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 (http://pando.com/2014/10/22/the-horrific-trickle-down-of-asshole-culture-at-a-company-like-uber/). 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> Source: Why you should delete Uber, and what to use instead (http://www.macworld.com/article/2848628/why-you-should-delete-uber-and-what-to-use-instead.html#tk.rss_all) |