Airbnb blocks Oregon hosts from seeing guests’ names in push against racial bias

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Airbnb blocks Oregon hosts from seeing guests’ names in push against racial bias
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Move comes after lawsuit in which three Black women alleged discrimination tied to names and photos

conducted by Harvard Business School researchers in 2016 affirmed these stories through data. After studying 6,400 Airbnb listings in five American cities, the study concluded that “requests from guests with distinctively African American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively white names”.

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