Company calls discrimination ‘the greatest challenge we face’ and has come under fire in recent months for users experiencing racial bias on the platform Airbnb has hired former US attorney general Eric Holder to aid address racism and other forms of discrimination on its short-term rental platform,the company announced Wednesday.
In a blogpost, CEO Brian Chesky called discrimination “the greatest challenge we face as a company” and conceded that he and his cofounders were not “fully conscious of this issue when we designed the platform” and that “there maintain at times been a lack of urgency to work on this”. Related: Airbnb faces outcry after transgender guest was denied stay by a host Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com