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Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig - I, apparently a naive idiot, had assumed that this was what “we background check our drivers” always meant.
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Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (@emilysteel / New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/uber-moves-to-enact-stricter-background-checks-for-drivers.html
https://www.techmeme.com/260219/p17#a260219p17
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Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org - “In the last 15 years, the number of European unicorns, that is to say, private tech companies worth more than $1 billion, has gone up from 10 to 200,” says @scmallaby in the latest episode of The Spillover podcast.
Watch or listen to this episode where he and co-host Rebecca Patterson are joined by CFR economic expert @edwardfishman:
https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/spillover/the-european-onion-china-brazil-and-india-take-on-maga
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x_04w_rPBjM [Embed]
https://x.com/CFR_org/status/2025338937221271719