Amazon's Fake Review Problem

Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by doglet on Saturday December 16, 2017 @12:06PM (#15940365)

Should we conclude that Amazon does not have sufficient incentive to remove these fake reviews? Surely they could, when third-party sites easily detect them...

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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by pishpash on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:12PM (#15940791)

Third-party sites are not "easily" detecting them. They have no idea what the performance of their "detection" is, in either direction (false +, false -).

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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by doglet on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:07PM (#15941223)

One problem is getting "ground truth." I think Amazon has a pretty good idea of a lot of near-certain true positives.

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