NY Magazine – Airbnb Accused of Purging NYC Listings to Make Its Numbers Look Better

February 11, 2016
Airbnb, one of the crown jewels of our exciting, broken new “sharing economy,” is supposed to let ordinary folks make some extra cash by renting out their spare rooms or unused homes. But according to a new report, Airbnb manipulated its data to hide the fact that a lot of renters in New York City are businesspeople with multiple properties listed on the site. That could be a big deal in Airbnb’s ongoing battle to show that it doesn’t violate the short-term housing laws in NYC, its single biggest market….
Source: http://nymag.com/following/2016/02/airbnb-accused-of-purging-1000-nyc-listings.html