FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews

Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by KajMagnus on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:20AM (#28861429)

Does this indicate that by not fixing the fake reviews problem, Amazon can, whenever it wants, get rid of a troublesome competitor?

(since the competitors are sort of forced to use fake reviews)

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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by makeitdouble on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:23AM (#28861756)

I guess it's double bound:

- they can really fix it (e.g. by kicking every fake review mandator) and drown competiting products far below in the search results, leaving "Amazon's choice" ones at the top.

With way fewer reviews it will be harder to argue the ranking results legitimacy.

- they don't fix it, and as you say, get an excuse to kick any random brand trying to stay afloat on their platform.

Either way Amazon wins.

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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by naim08 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:33AM (#28862112)

"Amazon's Choice" are also littered with fake reviews. WSJ did a story on this and looked at hundreds of "[AC]" listings and found majority of listings had fake reviews; many of the fake reviews being the top reviews.

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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by HPsquared on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:20AM (#28861738)

It's selective enforcement, in a different context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement

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Re:FTC Puts Hundreds of Businesses on Notice about Fake Reviews by KajMagnus on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:45PM (#28867502)

Thanks, interesting reading, and some from there linked topics as well

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