A swath of Airbnb hosts are ditching the platform in response to its billionaire co-founder Joe Gebbia going full MAGA since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Gebbia—who left Airbnb three years ago, but still sits on its board—was revealed to have joined Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last week. The San Francisco Standard reported that the news has short-term rental hosts fleeing in droves.
More than half of the posts on Airbnb’s message boards since Thursday are reportedly from hosts and travelers threatening—or outright announcing—they are cutting ties with the platform over Gebbia’s affiliation with DOGE, which has fired federal workers en masse and, in some cases, seemingly at random.
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