Inside the Fictitious World of Uber Propaganda
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VICE
4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a pretty bad PR year for the world’s most popular ride-share app… And unsurprisingly it has poured money into good news stories, to kick up warm fuzzy feelings about a company that has been found, time and again, to not care very much about its drivers.
Enter a CNBC paid partnership story about an UberEats driver who is about to make 100k a year. The American Dream, right? Not so, says Motherboard reporter Edward Ongweso who broke down the falsities of this rather suspect piece of news.
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| 0:00.0 | It's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:10.7 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.2 | I know this. |
| 0:15.1 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.3 | It tells her everything. |
| 0:19.1 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.8 | Eagle won. |
| 0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:24.4 | It's been a pretty bad PR year for the world's most popular Rideshare app. |
| 0:29.0 | And unsurprisingly, it has poured money into good news stories to kick up warm, fuzzy feelings |
| 0:33.6 | about a company that has been found, time and again, to not care very much about its |
| 0:38.3 | drivers. Enter a CNBC paid partnership story about an Uber-Eats driver who is about to make |
| 0:44.2 | 100K a year. The American Dream, right? Not so, says motherboard reporter Edward Rangueso, |
| 0:50.5 | who broke down the falsities of this rather suspect piece of news. |
| 0:54.9 | That's this week on cyber. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm Ben Maku coming at you from my kitchen. |
| 1:03.1 | Edward, welcome back to the pod. |
| 1:06.5 | Thanks. |
| 1:07.0 | It's great to be back. |
| 1:09.8 | I mean, you're the number one pain in the ass for Uber, |
| 1:14.0 | I believe. I feel like everyone in Uber knows this. I feel like reality is their pain in the ass, |
| 1:20.4 | you know. Reality is their pain in the ass. I mean, it's, you've done some great work on this and you, this story |
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