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”