An extensive set of internal Uber documents — numbering more than 124,000 in total — was leaked to The Guardian, including more than 83,000 emails, iMessages, and WhatsApp messages. The Uber Files, as they’ve been dubbed, paint a ruthless picture of Uber’s rise to global power, stopping at almost nothing to make its way to the top.
Take, for example, messages exchanged between then-CEO Travis Kalanick and other Uber executives as taxi drivers rioted in France in January 2016. Kalanick told French executives to stage counterprotests; when warned that doing so could put Uber drivers in danger, Kalanick told the executives to press forward nonetheless.
