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Hired Actors, Paid Media: Big Tech Has Dumped $8M Into Car Insurance Rate Cut
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's scheme to bring down insurance costs is backed by Uber cash and ads with professional actors.
March 16, 2026
Why Is the Governor of New York Trying to Make It Easier to Deny Traffic Violence Victims Insurance Payouts?
The governor is still fighting to make it cheaper to drive with a reform that would reduce compensation to some crash victims.
February 23, 2026
Safe Streets, Workers Rights, Crash Victims Targeted By Big Tech In Super Bowl Ads
Some Super Bowl commercials are ads. And some are warning shots.
February 10, 2026
Big Tech is Secretly Behind NY State’s Auto Insurance Rate Cut Push
Is Uber really interested in a more affordable, safer New York?
January 25, 2026
Under Pressure: Uber’s Navigation System Endangers the Public With Reckless Driving Directions
An Uber driver made an illegal u-turn and hit someone, but the in-app navigation told him to do it and the company won't give up the code.
October 6, 2025
OPINION: Uber and Big Road Killed Illinois’s Transit Funding — And Lawmakers Let Them
This post is sponsored by Boulevard Bikes.
By Ellen Steinke
The post Uber and the road construction lobby just killed Illinois’ transit funding bill, and your lawmakers let them appeared first on Streetsblog Chicago.
Ellen Steinke
June 13, 2025
Delivery Worker Minimum Wage Shows Promise … For Some, Data Shows
New data from New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection shows minimum wage is bringing order to a previously wild industry.
July 15, 2024
‘Buy, Bully, Bamboozle’: Report Shows App Companies Threaten Democracy
App delivery companies seek to block worker-led improvements by spending big money on political influence, leveraging their data, and even co-opting progressive language, argues a new report that lands days before a national one-day strike by app-workers.
April 29, 2024
Delivery Companies Don’t Want to Supply Delivery Workers With Safe Batteries and Bikes
Bronx Council Member Oswald Feliz introduced the legislation, but the tech companies don't like it.
November 22, 2023
Analysis: NYC Congestion Pricing Fee May Be Too Low for Taxi and Uber Riders
Taxi passengers are going to get a break from congestion tolling — but is it too generous a break?
October 25, 2023
