Airbnb
What the automated decision is: Airbnb's anti-party system scores reservation attempts on signals such as review history, how long the guest has been on Airbnb, trip length, distance to the listing and weekend vs weekday, and prevents reservations it judges high-risk from going through.
WF-P-000260
- Made by
- Airbnb, Inc.
- About the vendor
- Airbnb, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
- Airbnb, Inc.'s chief executive is Brian Chesky (per Wikidata).
- Airbnb, Inc. reported revenue of $12.24bn for 2025.
- Products
- Anti-party technology · Project Lighthouse · Total price display
- In court
- 0 cases name it as a party
Where we have looked
Searched through CourtListener / RECAP, last read 2026-10-08:
- US federal district, appellate and bankruptcy dockets — 235 courts105 district, 14 appellate, 95 bankruptcy and 21 special federal courts
- published opinions, including state supreme and appellate courts — 384 courts, including 53 state supreme courts53 state supreme, 62 state appellate, 6 state trial and 28 state special courts, plus the federal courts above
County and municipal courts are not searched, and neither is anything outside the United States. A count of nought means we found nothing where we looked, not that nothing exists.
Incidents on the record naming Airbnb
- Airbnb apologises after host used AI-doctored photos to claim fake damages · 2025 · Financial · foxbusiness.com
- Airbnb bans user for life over nine-year-old possession charge · 2022 · Access denied · twitter.com
- Airbnb bans users in Australia using trustworthiness algorithm · 2021 · Discrimination · choice.com.au
- Airbnb smart-pricing algorithm increased racial revenue gap, study finds · 2015 · Discrimination · cmu.edu
Public reports of harm that name Airbnb, written from the article each cites. A report is an account of what happened, not a finding of fault.
Relationship map
Everything this page holds on Airbnb, connected. Each point opens the record, the court docket or the source behind it.
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The same links as a list
- Platform: Airbnb
- Vendor: Airbnb, Inc.
- Products: Anti-party technology · Project Lighthouse · Total price display
- Incidents: Airbnb apologises after host used AI-doctored photos to claim fake damages · Airbnb bans user for life over nine-year-old possession charge · Airbnb bans users in Australia using trustworthiness algorithm · Airbnb smart-pricing algorithm increased racial revenue gap, study finds
What we hold, by kind
Incidents4
Bias allegations, by product2
- Airbnb bans users in Australia using trustworthiness algorithm · incident
- Airbnb smart-pricing algorithm increased racial revenue gap, study finds · incident
Allegations from incidents and court cases. An allegation is not a finding.
False positives and false negatives—
None found yet.
Reports describing a wrong flag or rejection (false positive) or a missed one (false negative), picked out by their wording; not yet classified by a person.
Regulatory actions—
None found yet in the regulators we search (FTC, CFPB, EEOC, NHTSA) or its filings.
Settlements—
None found yet in its filings or the cases we hold.
Audits—
No published audit found yet.
Bias audits the vendor says were done, and audit-based certifications.
Academic studies—
Not collected yet: studies of this platform are a source we are adding.
Verified deployments
0 businesses we can evidence on Airbnb, from addresses they run on its domain and from Airbnb’s own customer stories. Which ones, and since when, is a Professional feature.