{"id":14557,"date":"2016-05-16T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14557"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:05:20","slug":"spotting-fake-amazon-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/spotting-fake-amazon-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting Fake Amazon Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewirecutter.com\/2016\/05\/lets-talk-about-amazon-reviews\/\">Lauren Dragan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/thewirecutter.com\/2016\/05\/lets-talk-about-amazon-reviews\/\"><p>Have you ever seen some random product for sale that&rsquo;s from some brand you&rsquo;ve never heard of, and the company has no website&mdash;yet its widget has somehow garnered 15,000 five-star reviews since &#8230; last week? We sure have. This situation is likely the result of a compensated-review program. Such compensated reviews&mdash;orchestrated by businesses that cater to companies that want more public positive feedback&mdash;violate Amazon&rsquo;s terms of use but are difficult to police.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>You have a few ways to suss out what may be a fake review. The easiest way is to use <a href=\"http:\/\/fakespot.com\">Fakespot<\/a>. This site allows you to paste the link to any Amazon product and receive a score regarding the likelihood of fake reviews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/amazon-sues-fake-review-site\/\">Amazon Sues Fake Review Site<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Dragan: Have you ever seen some random product for sale that&rsquo;s from some brand you&rsquo;ve never heard of, and the company has no website&mdash;yet its widget has somehow garnered 15,000 five-star reviews since &#8230; last week? We sure have. This situation is likely the result of a compensated-review program. Such compensated reviews&mdash;orchestrated by businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-05T21:05:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"ad729456-7d86-4a36-ad11-a3e2018f7835","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-05T21:05:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ArXKUVn2GSjatEaPiAY94NQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,509,96],"class_list":["post-14557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-shopping","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14563,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions\/14563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}