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The popular ride-sharing app Uber has come under heavy scrutiny after a plethora of leaked confidential files highlighted the company's potentially illegal tactics to fuel its meteoric global expansion beginning nearly a decade ago, a joint media investigation showed recently.

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

Uber lobbied political leaders to relax labor and taxi laws in an effort to globally expand and considered portraying violence against its drivers as a way to gain sympathy from the public.

The "Uber Files" leak of over 124,000 internal documents from Uber reveals how the ridesharing company prodded politicians and bent or broke laws during a period of global expansion from 2013 to 2017.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists says Uber defied taxi laws and upended workers’ rights

As Uber pushed into markets around the world, the ride-sharing service lobbied political leaders to relax labor and taxi laws and used a “kill switch″ to thwart regulators and law enforcement

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The Uber files is a global investigation based on 124,000 leaked documents that reveal how the company broke the law, duped police and regulators, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments across the world They detail the extensive help Uber got from leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and ex-EU commissioner Neelie Kroes, reports BBC. They also show how

As Uber pushed into global markets, it lobbied political leaders to relax labor and taxi laws, says a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

A new trove of leaked documents has shed new light on the early days of Uber..