{"id":13412,"date":"2016-09-16T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T08:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=13412"},"modified":"2016-09-16T13:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:20:24","slug":"open-letter-brian-chesky-airbnb-anti-discrimination-policy-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/09\/open-letter-brian-chesky-airbnb-anti-discrimination-policy-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to Brian Chesky: Airbnb anti-discrimination policy falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13419\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paris-selfie-tnooz.jpg\" alt=\"paris-selfie-tnooz\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paris-selfie-tnooz.jpg 690w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paris-selfie-tnooz-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Airbnb recently published\u00a0a report \u201cAirbnb\u2019s Work to Fight Discrimination and Build Inclusion\u201d\u00a0to address\u00a0discrimination issues reported by Airbnb&#8217;s\u00a0hosts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Joah Spearman, CEO and founder of Localeur wrote an open letter to\u00a0Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Dear Brian,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After much scrutiny including at least one ongoing class-action lawsuit, I noticed yesterday, your company issued a much-publicized report sharing its new anti-discrimination policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report does a tremendous job of demonstrating Airbnb has put a lot of internal energy, resources and thought into this effort, including bringing on former US Attorney General Eric Holder as an adviser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, in my opinion, the 32-page report falls several steps short of actually addressing ongoing discrimination on the platform.(&#8230;)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an excerpt from the article originally published on Tnooz. To read the whole story, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnooz.com\/article\/airbnb-anti-discrimination-policy-falls-short\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">An open letter to Brian Chesky: Airbnb anti-discrimination policy falls short<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbnb recently published a report \u201cAirbnb\u2019s Work to Fight Discrimination and Build Inclusion\u201d to address discrimination issues reported by Airbnb&#8217;s hosts. 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