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Emmanuel Macron is among leaders who helped the ride-hailing company disrupt new markets.

A leaked cache of confidential files from ride-sharing app Uber illustrates ethically dubious and potentially illegal tactics the company used to fuel its frenetic global expansion beginning nearly a decade ago, a joint media investigation showed.

The revelations came from documents referred to as "The Uber Files" obtained by The Guardians and shared with the ICIJ.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Uber aggressively pushed into markets around the world, the ride-sharing service lobbied political leaders to relax labor and taxi

A leak of more than 80,000 internal emails from Uber lays bare the ride-hailing company's law-skirting methods for insinuating itself into new markets and courting powerful figures to try to get its way.

Uber execs blocked authorities from accessing company data at least 12 times during European office raids, documents leaked to the Guardian reveal.

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, according to a report released Sunday.

The report revealed Sunday revealed the extraordinary lengths Uber undertook to establish itself in nearly 30 countries.

It was mid-2015, taxi drivers in France overturned cars, burned tires and blocked access to the airport and train station in protest of Uber, the San