An independent report alleges that Airbnb purged more than 1,000 listings from its site in November in an attempt to rig a survey of its New York City hosts. The data Airbnb released in December showed that 95 percent of its “entire home” hosts in New York City share only one listing. Months after the alleged purge, listings of multiple homes by hosts on the site have already begun to proliferate again, the report states. According to The New York Times, Airbnb has a history of removing listings in bulk in New York. In 2014, the site got rid of more than 2,000 listings in response to an affidavit filed by the state’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, which asserted that nearly two-thirds of apartments listed in the city were illegal sublets. Read more here.
