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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of Airbnb's checkout policy change was remarkably uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of exactly 0.0 points and no meaningful ideological divide to identify. All three outlets treated the story as straightforward consumer news, relying on neutral, factual verbs and avoiding loaded language. AP and HuffPost framed the change from the guest's perspective — "no longer have to wash the dishes or strip the beds" — emphasizing the removal of a burden on travelers. Sky News took a slightly different structural angle, centering the host rather than the guest with "hosts can't ask guests to do 'chores' anymore," and notably placed "chores" in quotation marks, which mildly signals the colloquial nature of the term without editorializing. This minor presentational difference aside, the shared framing across all outlets was factual, policy-descriptive, and devoid of political or ideological coloring.