Tag: Trustpilot
Trustpilot removes 3.3 million fake reviews in 2023
Removal of fake reviews remains steady YoY (6%), with the majority (82%) identified by Trustpilot’s automated detection technology Fake detection technology becoming more sophisticated by drawing on wealth of data […]
One in 10 Amazon customers offered ‘bribes’ for positive reviews, Which? finds
One in 10 Amazon shoppers could have been offered an incentive in exchange for a five-star review of one of its products in the last year, according to Which? research. […]
Facebook infiltrated by ‘fake review factories’, warns Which?
Facebook is still being infiltrated by fake review factories, despite the imminent publication of a new bill that will make this activity illegal and subject to potentially huge fines from […]
Online platforms failing to weed out fake reviews, claims study
Facebook, Google and Trustpilot can be easily infiltrated with fake reviews with unscrupulous brokers selling them for as little as £4 each, a Which? investigation suggests. The consumer watchdog’s latest […]
Trustpilot removed nearly 2 million fake reviews in 2021
Trustpilot claims it removed nearly 2 million fake reviews in 2021, out of around 46.7 million which were left on its platform during the period. The consumer website claims to […]
Tech Digest daily roundup: World’s First Fully Solar-Powered ‘Camper Van’
A group of Dutch students has reimagined van life and is hitting the road to Portugal. Just don’t call their groundbreaking new solar-powered vehicle a camper van. “We call […]
Tech Digest daily round up: MyHeritage creates deep fake tool
Genealogy site MyHeritage has introduced a tool which uses deepfake technology to animate the faces in photographs of dead relatives. Called DeepNostalgia, the firm acknowledged that some people might find the […]
Trustpilot aiming to tackle ‘fake reviews’ problem
Amidst growing concerns over fake online reviews as exposed recently by consumer watchdog Which?, consumer reviews site Trustpilot claims it has removed more than 2.2 million fake or harmful reviews […]
