A new Airbnb-sponsored survey claims that most Americans believe it ‘helps the middle class’,offering a window into the company’s savvy PR machineAirbnb and Uber pitched the “sharing economy” as a key antidote to wage stagnation and inequality at the Democratic national conference with a campaign that critics say reflects the technology corporations’ sample of deploying questionable data in its political battles.
Coinciding with its panel discussion on Tuesday, the current home-sharing startup also released results of a survey it commissioned, and which claimed that 74% of millennials acquire a “favorable” impression of the sharing economy and that 81% “want Airbnb to be legal”. Related: Most Wanted: San Francisco flyers name and shame Airbnb hosts Related: How a failed attempt to get porn off the internet protects Airbnb from the law Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com