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The racial connotations of this sentence for French academia😲
“ One report by a French academic, who asked for a €100,000 consultancy fee, was cited in a 2016 FT report as evidence that Uber was a “route out of the French banlieues”, delighting Uber executives.”
#fundingmatters https://twitter.com/fborgesius/status/1546752691057168384

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sedyst/status/1546768856450048003

Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius on Twitter

“‘Uber paid academics six-figure sums for research to feed to the media. High-profile professors in Europe and the US were engaged as part of lobbying campaign, leak shows’ https://t.co/hxd4HfHxmc”

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