Amazon Fake Reviews

Discussions center on the prevalence of fake, paid, and manipulated reviews on Amazon, including positive and negative ones from competitors, Amazon's incentives and failures to address them, and tools or suggestions to detect and mitigate review fraud.

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owlbynight Oct 15, 2020 View on HN

Do you trust Amazon to remove fake reviews?

epanchin Feb 9, 2021 View on HN

Do they verify fake positive reviews, or just the fake negatives?

beefnugs Mar 10, 2024 View on HN

Can you ask and get good results of how many reviews seem fake, misleading, and for previous different items leaching off the same review-pile?

colejohnson66 May 27, 2019 View on HN

With fake reviews in the opposite direction?

carols10cents Mar 19, 2021 View on HN

What stops this subreddit from becoming spammed with fake reviews or otherwise succumbing to the problems of Amazon reviews?

vannevar May 9, 2018 View on HN

Amazon may not be able to stop it, but they could surely mitigate it significantly. They choose not to, because in the end, having lots of reviews for lots of products is better for them than having a few reviews for a few products, even if a significant number of the reviews are fake.

pgrote Apr 16, 2019 View on HN

How would fakespot be targeted by fake reviewers?

zentiggr Jun 11, 2021 View on HN

Until Amazon has financial liability for fake/paid reviews, they will never go away.

hakube Jun 19, 2021 View on HN

isn't it a mechanism to combat fake reviews or this is just a bug?

mahmud Jan 21, 2010 View on HN

"ehm.. with fake reviews"