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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by underwater on Monday April 15, 2019 @11:29PM (#19670907)
If Google can stop email spam then Amazon, who has a reviewer's identity, credit card number, browsing behaviour, and purchase history should be able to spot fake reviews.
Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by BenjiWiebe on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:51AM (#19671215)
That's what I've been thinking. I get more spam than legitimate email, but over the course of a year or so Thunderbird's Bayesian classifier has gotten to probably 98% accuracy with <.1% false positives.