Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by bsenftner on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @07:52AM (#44442585)

What I don't understand is why some law firm, heavy with Ivy league predators, does not eye Amazon's fraud engine as a pot of generational gold to be taken? Sure, it will take some effort, but that's a huge pot of gold just sitting in the open with this blatant fraud in broad daylight.

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by soderfoo on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:03AM (#44442704)

There’s an old law school adage that A students become professors, B students go to work for C students.

It's similar for "shark attorneys," who will typically hail from tier 2 and 3 schools. They're the aggressive hustlers.

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by hattar on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:50AM (#44443130)

> There’s an old law school adage that A students become professors

If I were a law school professor, I’d probably also say that.

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by csa on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @10:25AM (#44444111)

> If I were a law school professor, I’d probably also say that.

Or more likely a jaded B-student who has been around the block a few times.

The reason this works is that the C-students include students who have always known that their social network would facilitate them being rainmakers, while B-students are often middle-class try-hards who don’t have the right social network and don’t have the social skills to develop the right one.

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