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Amazon, Tripadvisor and other companies team up to battle fake reviews while FTC seeks to ban them (apnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For years they profit off fake reviews. The government finally starts to notice and all of a sudden the corporations give a shit? Riiiiight.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It must be hurting their bottom line.

Or they just want certain reviews to be removed by claiming they are fake.

No reason to expect that th reason is to benefit their customers.