Guilt by association: Airbnb’s shadowy “background check” bans users if they’ve closely interacted with any other banned users

Airbnb is among those companies and entities that have taken to monitoring users for people they associate with, with the purpose of banning those as well, in case the original “target” gets banned.

Airbnb has confirmed this, but is leaving out a lot of details, such as when the company started implementing this policy and how often that happens.