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Uber executive apologises after suggesting the firm dig dirt on hostile journalists

This article was about the firm Uber, that was forced to apologise after a senior executive suggested the company hire a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on hostile journalists.

• Ian Osborne, the company’s head of business, Emil Michael, singled out Sarah Lacy, the editor of tech news site PandoDaily, as somebody who could be targeted by the researchers
• Michael has since released a statement saying that he believed the dinner was off the record
• While Lacy has long been a critic of Uber, she says that Michael’s comments demonstrate that “the company still has the ability to shock and horrify me”
• Lots of journalists and the public want Emil Michael fired.

I think that Uber should fire Emil Michael because people are not boycotting the app and at the end of the day Uber is a business that needs to make money.