Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts Is Widespread, Report Says

To this point, the researchers have developed a browser plugin called Debias Yourself that Airbnb users can deploy in Chrome to scrape names and photos off of the home-rental site. If you're worried you may be influenced by subtle bias, their tool will edit Airbnb for you to remove that possibility. ("That isn’t quite what Airbnb intended," the researchers explain of their plugin, "but it’s your computer, and it’s your right to configure it as you see fit.")