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Re:Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-... by hbbio on Monday October 22, 2018 @04:06AM (#18272950)
It would be very funny if Amazon gets back to where Internet started... curated directories.

Not necessarily à la Yahoo! but a modern collaborative system, with help from some ML would do. My friends at Slant would agree :)

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Re:Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-... by marcusjt on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:43AM (#18275585)
Amazon wants to automate & eliminate manual tasks, not add more manual tasks to what they've already got.

But Amazon's bright sparks might be able to come up with an automated approach to solving this problem (e.g. via machine learning to identify the suspicious patterns of behaviour that Which? and others have observed) if they are suitably incentivised (e.g. sufficiently embarrassed)

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