An Uber whistleblower leaked over 124,000 company documents to the media.
The whistleblower has named himself as former Uber top lobbyist Mark MacGann.
Uber says MacGann's leak comes after it paid him a $550,000 settlement. MacGann disputes this.
The whistleblower behind a leak of over 124,000 internal Uber files to a group of media organizations including The Guardian has come forward as a former lobbyist for the company.
The Guardian named the whistleblower as Mark MacGann, who worked at the company from 2014 to 2016 as its top lobbyist in Europe.
"I regret being part of a group of people which massaged the facts to earn the trust of drivers, of consumers and of political elites," MacGann told The Guardian in a report revealing his identity.
MacGann said Uber had "sold people a lie" in convincing governments to change taxi laws on the basis the company would bring economic benefits.
"The company approach in these places was essentially to break the law, show how amazing Uber's service was, and then change the law. My job was to go above the heads of city officials, build relations with the top level of government, and negotiate. It was also to deal with the fallout," he said.
MacGann took an active role in some company decisions that he now decries, and told The Guardian he had been "drunk on the Kool-Aid" during his tenure there, but had slowly grown disillusioned after he left the company.
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