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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by thatoneuser on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:36PM (#19258994)
Are you seriously proposing Amazon doesn't realize what's going on with their review systems?
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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by longerthoughts on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @06:57PM (#19259617)
Knowing the problem exists isn't the same as having granular data on the scope and nature of the problem. That said... I'd bet they have some data.
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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by vonmoltke on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @08:49AM (#19263171)
No, as the sibling's post indicates I am suggesting they don't have sufficient data to bound or correct the problem. It's a problem of getting the correct data, then extracting signal from that data. People here seem to be trivializing that part.
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