Uber denies involvement into Susan Fowler research

"Everyone at Uber is deeply hurting after reading Susan Fowler's blog post," the message reads. Some Uber users trying to delete the app received a notification from the company specifically mentioning the allegations of sexual harassment detailed over the weekend in a blog post by former employee Susan Fowler Rigetti. UPDATE: Feb. 23, 2017, 10:41 a.m. PST This post has been updated to reflect that, according to a spokesperson, Uber has stopped sending out the above message in response to account-deletion requests. Still, look forward to the independent investigation by paid Uber lobbyist Eric Holder and Uber board member Arianna Huffington — Paul Bradley Carr (@paulbradleycarr) February 23, 2017In the meantime, it's clear that Uber can no longer ignore Susan Fowler. It goes on to say that a law firm with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder as partner will lead an independent investigation into the matter.


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Uber denies involvement into Susan Fowler research

— Susan Fowler Rigetti (@susanthesquark) February 24, 2017Uber told Business Insider on Friday that it was not involved:"Uber is in no way involved. On Friday , Fowler tweeted that someone was doing research for a "smear campaign" against her, warning her friends to beware of anyone seeking personal information about her. Uber said it is not involved in efforts to collect personal, and potentially unflattering, information about Susan Fowler, the former engineer that published a tell-all blog post about sexism at the company. Many people on Twitter immediately suspected Uber as the source of the research into Fowler, due to the company's ongoing investigation into her claims of sexual harassment in the workplace. Fowler later clarified that she didn't know who was behind it the efforts to obtain information about her private life.




We all gave up on Uber HR and our managers after that. I was enrolled in a Stanford CS graduate program, sponsored by Uber, and Uber only sponsored employees who had high performance scores. We kept each other sane, kept the gigantic Uber ecosystem running, and told ourselves that it would eventually get better. On my last day at Uber, I calculated the percentage of women who were still in the org. According to my manager, his manager, and the director, my transfer was being blocked because I had undocumented performance problems.


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