Megan Graham wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled $5 for a Good Online Review? No Way, Says New FTC Rule (29 August 2024).
Continue reading “New FTC Rule bans buying followers and sham reviews”cybersecurity team uncovered organized fake reviews scam
SafetyDetectives Cybersecurity Team wrote an article titled Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach (6 May 2021).
Continue reading “cybersecurity team uncovered organized fake reviews scam”What is a brushing scam?
Lauren Lewis wrote an article for KTLA titled New twist on popular mail scam hitting Southern California (24 January 2024).
Continue reading “What is a brushing scam?”FTC Guidance For Influencer Marketing
Wendy Davis wrote an article for MediaPost titled FTC Updates Guidance For Influencer Marketing (29 June 2023).
Continue reading “FTC Guidance For Influencer Marketing”FTC enforcement for review hijacking
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a press release titled FTC Approves Final Order against The Bountiful Company in First Case Alleging Hijacking of Online Product Reviews (April 10, 2023).
Continue reading “FTC enforcement for review hijacking”Fake Reviews
Nicole Nguyen wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled How to Spot Fake Reviews and Shady Ratings on Amazon (July 20, 2022).
Continue reading “Fake Reviews”200,000 Fake Amazon Reviewers Exposed
Phil Muncaster wrote an article for Info Security titled Misconfigured Database Exposes 200K Fake Amazon Reviewers.
Continue reading “200,000 Fake Amazon Reviewers Exposed”Amazon Fake Reviews
Isabelle Lee wrote an article for Bloomberg titled Amazon Fake Reviews Reach Holiday Season Levels During Pandemic.
« About 42% of 720 million Amazon reviews assessed by the monitoring service Fakespot Inc. from March through September were unreliable, up from about 36% for the same period last year. »
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Reputation Failure: The Limits of Market Discipline in Consumer Markets
Yonathan A. Arbel, law professor at University of Alabama, wrote a paper for Wake Forest Law Review titled Reputation Failure: The Limits of Market Discipline in Consumer Markets.
My favorite part of this paper is the concept of “Regression to the Extreme” in product reviews. Continue reading “Reputation Failure: The Limits of Market Discipline in Consumer Markets”
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