The Guardian - High-profile professors in Europe and the US were engaged as part of lobbying campaign, leak showsUber paid high-profile academics in Europe and the US hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce reports that could be used as part of the companys lobbying campaign.The Uber files, a cache of thousands of confidential documents leaked to the Guardian, reveal lucrative deals with several leading academics who were paid to publish research on the benefits of its economic model. The reports were commissioned as Uber wrestled with regulators in key cities around the world. Continue reading...
