There's also a bit of an ugly witch-hunt going on at the moment, with people trying to find out who "infiltrated" the closed FB groups and provided the screenshots of posts and conversations to reporters. It appears that some won't be happy until a scapegoat has been found, and duly subjected to trial by social media.
It doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone however, that the one entity with by far the most to lose by the existence of a FB page that highlights and exposes the scale and magnitude of the Airbnb Party problem - and the most to gain by its closure - is Airbnb itself. (Nothing more damaging to investor confidence than having one's filthy laundry aired in public).
And as it happens, Airbnb just recruited a raft of brand new Social Media "Specialists" and "Analysts" in recent months too. Perhaps they've hit the ground running.
Also, the original investigation/report into the Airbnb Vent and Airbnb Blacklist groups, was carried out by Skift, a "travel intelligence" media company and marketing platform, whose flagship conference, the Skift Short Term Rental Summit for "a high level audience - Executives, Founders, Hotel Brands, Investors, Media, Property Managers, StartUps, Technologists and Vendors", takes place in NYC on December 5th. Hopefully, they'll have drummed up a few nice ticket sales for themselves ($595 to €895 apiece), on the back of their sensationalist, one-sided article.
The speakers at the salubrious event include top dogs from VC and speculator-backed corporate Airbnb mega-hosts such as Sonder, Stay Alfred, Domio, Turnkey, Vacasa etc (with tens of thousands of listings between them). Also appearing at the event is Andrew Kitchell, CEO of Lyric, another mega-host in which Airbnb itself recently led a $160 million funding round.
Considering the fact that the unmonitored listings of many of the corporate mega-hosts have - ironically - an abysmal reputation when it comes to wild parties and anti-social guest behaviour, it's all rather convenient that the embarrassing Airbnb Guest Blacklist group has been shut down and eliminated. Better for all that sort of distasteful stuff to be brushed under the carpet. It would only upset the investors...
https://forum.skift.com/short-term-rental-summit/