Airbnb hires former attorney general Eric Holder to fight discrimination
by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#1MZAR)
Company calls discrimination 'the greatest challenge we face' and has come under fire in recent months for users experiencing racial bias on the platform
Airbnb has hired former US attorney general Eric Holder to help address racism and other forms of discrimination on its short-term rental platform, the company announced Wednesday.
In a blogpost, CEO Brian Chesky called discrimination "the greatest challenge we face as a company" and conceded that he and his cofounders were not "fully conscious of this issue when we designed the platform" and that "there have at times been a lack of urgency to work on this".
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