Report: Uber weighed using violence its drivers experience to gain sympathy

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists scoured myriad documents, including email, to reveal “an unprecedented look” at ways Uber defied tax laws and subverted workers’ rights.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Uber aggressively pushed into markets around the world, the ride-sharing service lobbied political leaders to relax labor and taxi laws, used a “kill switch” to thwart regulators and law enforcement, channeled money through Bermuda and other tax havens and considered portraying violence against its drivers as a way to gain public sympathy,  today! 

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