[danielvf]

Hiring Hoder to head an investigation is essentialy the strongest possible response from Uber. Time will tell if it's enough to win back Uber's urban, progressive leaning US market.

Both Holder and Huffington have reputations of using positions of power to advance progressive causes. Because that's their personal brand, it's pretty safe to assume that they will be giving more weight to that than to making the company look good.