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Airbnb Hosts Are Furious They Can No Longer Make Guests Do Their Chores

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Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.

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TechCrunch and Wired both frame the change as Airbnb limiting what hosts can require guests to do, and both foreground host anger. TechCrunch stays focused on the policy and says hosts may leave the platform, while Wired uses a more emphatic angle about hosts being furious and, in its extract alone, adds that some are threatening to strike, others are plotting ways around the rules, and guests are celebrating.

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