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Airbnb Purged New York Listings to Create a Rosier Portrait (nytimes.com)
5 points by skennedy 3773 days ago
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Given the way Airbnb portrays the average middle class family renting out a single room in their home and cooking dinner for their "guests" in their advertising in NYC while deriving most of their revenue from illegal whole-apartment-without-the-owner-present rentals... is this really a surprise?