Airbnb announced on Thursday that it had hired Chris Lehane, a former advisor to President Clinton, as its new head of global policy and public affairs.

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// Airbnb’s head of global policy, Chris Lehane, announced the company will be spending the next year on helping to launch 100 home-sharing clubs across the United States and internationally, creating an army of supporters to take on future political battles. //

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The measure to more tightly regulate Airbnb and other similar short-term rental platforms has been more-or-less tied in the polls.

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San Francisco residents rejected a controversial measure limiting the number of short-term accommodation rentals to 75 nights a year per unit, results of a citywide vote revealed Tuesday night.

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With over 5,200 listings in San Francisco, Airbnb is a major player in the city’s tourism market. And now that voters could regulate its business model out of existence, Airbnb is also a player in city politics.

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On the heels of a ballot victory in San Francisco, Airbnb announced Wednesday that it would launch scores of home-sharing “clubs” in cities around the world, creating a grassroots army to take on opponents in future battles.

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Chris Lehane’s seventh rule of damage control is straightforward enough: respond with overwhelming force. “If you do not,” Lehane wrote with his co-authors in the 2014 crisis management playbook, Masters of Disaster, “you will be run over.”

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（法新社哈瓦那20日電） 美國政府今天在總 統歐巴馬抵達古巴進行歷史性訪問前夕，批准了Airbnb 在古巴接受非美國籍顧客訂房。 舊金山起家的Airbnb網站宣布，已接 獲美國財政部許可，「可接受世界各地的客人」下榻在 古巴

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A-A+ 保安人員阻止示威者闖人Airbnb辦公室。 （記者關文傑／攝影） 分享 全球短期租房領導品牌Airbnb網站，近日出現以色列占領區約旦河西岸房屋以旅行用住所名義出租，引起美國巴勒斯坦裔不滿，數十人10日在舊金

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