Bingo. Anyone who thinks the pile-on on Kalanick was the result of Fowler's expose is naive beyond belief. It was a coordinated punishment campaign, the bro culture story just served as a convenient starting point. Now high profile CEOs will think twice before they as much as talk to anyone not approved by the liberal establishment, let alone sit on any council.
Except everything that came out against Uber was things that they had actually done. Susan Fowler wasn't planted. Waymo wasn't planted. And these things started long before Trump took office.
everything that "came out against uber" had little impact on the business metrics. The bad event for uber was a widespread campaign to delete the app that started in january when Tk was on trumps business council and uber caused some outrage when they turned off surge during a "muslim ban" strike by taxi workers at JFK.
