Thousands of short-term rental hosts with listings on Airbnb and Vrbo have used closed Facebook groups to gossip about their guests, frequently sharing guests' personal information and photos, according to screenshots collected by the travel site Skift. The gossip reportedly took place in at least two Facebook groups, titled "Airbnb Guests Blacklist" and "Airbnb Host Community – Vent, Recommend, and Discuss." A Facebook spokesperson confirmed that Facebook has taken down the "Airbnb Guests Blacklist" group for violating its terms of use. Both groups were intended as places for short-term rental hosts to exchange information about guests they didn't like in order to warn other hosts, the screenshots show. The host reportedly wrote in the Facebook group, "So I go into the app and I see this crap.

Source: Stuff October 31, 2019 21:22 UTC