It's a common scenario: A consumer visits Amazon or some other giant e-commerce marketplace looking for a new pair of headphones or a wireless speaker or some other piece of tech. They know what they want, but not exactly what they want, so they take a look at product reviews to help make their decision.
It seems like a pretty egalitarian process, but a new investigation by a British consumer education group, called Which?, found a lot of tech categories on Amazon are flooded with products from virtually unknown brands, all boosted by product reviews that appear to be fake.
CNN outta know.
yeah, the ones with bad English grammar is a dead giveaway
I found out how bad it is then I searched for 'iphone x splitter charger headphone' 90%+ of the reviews are talking about some other products, and one had the same review copy and pasted over and over hundreds of times. Do your own research.
How dare them trying to copy FAKENEWSCNN. Only one fake allowed in America. FAKENEWSCNN Is number one and don't you forget it Amazon!
CNN is the authority on fake.
Well I absolutely believe it, you are the experts when it comes to such.. You know fake...
pott3rfanatic I knew it
Next you are going to tell me Yelp are fake reviews too
When it starts telling you with too many details how much their grandchildren or husband loves it, is usually fake.
Well, yeah. You can easily tell most of the ‘verified’ reviews are 10 word sentences with broken English. Chinese companies list then buy their own products to create ‘verified buyer’ reviews.
rafaelbermeo, Transwork1, XRobsPunchinBag, and I_am_Reliable notwithstanding (idiots on late night Twitter), Amazon can't be entirely blamed for the phony reviewers.
Fake reviews on Amazon? What is this 2003? Though to be fair, I wish it were 2003 again
Otracaro
Gosh, you don't say!
Fake reviews?! Say it ain't so
I hear a lot of crap about the praised