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by morgante 3835 days ago
The "in that AirBnB you’re staying in" is totally superfluous and is mere outrage fodder.
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Not really. The script was written as a result of the recent AirBnB stories about hosts spying on and recording their guests. The relevance is direct and immediate, and taking it out of the title is shameless editorializing.
The very first vignette in the very first link (http://fusion.net/story/49806/beware-houseguests-cheap-home-...) is about someone who was spied on when staying for free at some person's apartment. Not AirBnB.

Journalists often concoct an "ongoing" narrative to make it sound like there is a big trend when there are only one or two anecdotes. Write a weak article with one example, follow it up with a second article with a second example, then write a third article proclaiming that something is "sweeping the nation," linking to what "we previously reported."

The linked title could just as well have said "when you're staying in a stranger's home," but that doesn't carry as much currency as "AirBnB." I think that's clickbait, albeit subtle.