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Amazon blames social media companies for sales of fake Amazon reviews

Accepted submission by Freeman at 2021-06-16 20:06:15 from the blame shifting dept.
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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/amazon-blames-social-media-companies-for-sales-of-fake-amazon-reviews/ [arstechnica.com]

Amazon today said it can't stop fake product reviews without help from social media companies, and it blamed those companies for not doing more to prevent solicitation of fake reviews.

In a blog post [aboutamazon.com], Amazon said its own "continued improvements in detection of fake reviews and connections between bad-actor buying and selling accounts" has led to "an increasing trend of bad actors attempting to solicit fake reviews outside Amazon, particularly via social media services."

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