. "In November 2014, Emil Michael, senior vice-president at car ride-hire app company Uber, made comments suggesting that Uber could conduct smear campaigns against critics and journalists: Ben Smith reported in Buzzfeed: Over dinner, [Michael] outlined the notion of spending \u201Ca million dollars\u201D to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists. That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the press \u2014 they\u2019d look into \u201Cyour personal lives, your families,\u201D and give the media a taste of its own medicine. Michael was particularly focused on one journalist, Sarah Lacy, the editor of the Silicon Valley website PandoDaily, a sometimes combative voice inside the industry. Lacy recently accused Uber of \u201Csexism and misogyny.\u201D Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick issued a series of tweets beginning \"Emil\u2019s comments at the recent dinner party were terrible and do not represent the company.\" As of mid-November 2014, there was no reported disciplinary action against Michael (eg, firing, suspension, investigation)."@en . . "In November 2014, Emil Michael, senior vice-president at car ride-hire app company Uber, made comments suggesting that Uber could conduct smear campaigns against critics and journalists: Ben Smith reported in Buzzfeed: Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick issued a series of tweets beginning \"Emil\u2019s comments at the recent dinner party were terrible and do not represent the company.\" As of mid-November 2014, there was no reported disciplinary action against Michael (eg, firing, suspension, investigation)."@en . . . "Uber executive smear threat"@en .