Good morning! The Uber Files whistleblower was revealed — turns out, he did a few shady things at the company, too. So what happens to him?

Whistleblowing from the front line

To blow the whistle, you need to have been close to the action. In the case of the Uber Files, the person sharing details about Uber’s practices was actually involved in the action.

Mark MacGann revealed himself as the Uber Files whistleblower yesterday in a video published by The Guardian. MacGann was Uber’s head of public policy in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and he’s now the founder of Moonshot Ventures. He’s also directly tied to the files being published.

• “I am partly responsible,” MacGann told the Guardian.
• MacGann texted Emmanuel Macron in 2015 for help when a French police official banned one of the company’s services. “I will look at this personally,” Macron texted him.
• It’s unusual, but not surprising, for MacGann to implicate himself. It had to be someone close to the company that had access to those emails and texts, but past whistleblowers have tended to be people who observed dicey business practices, not the ones involved with them.

So will MacGann face consequences? It’s too early to say how these reports on Uber will affect the company and those people named in the files..

• One thing we do know: The Uber Files implicated some huge names, with Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and George Osborne among them, and their involvement has already started raising eyebrows.
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