







Lauren Dragan takes a look at the world of compensated reviews and astroturfing, and explains how we tell the real Amazon reviews from the fakes.
How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

The Feed Is Fake
That “viral” song, movie, influencer, and celebrity drama you scrolled by recently was likely the result of a stealth marketing campaign.

“Paging Dr. Fraud”: The Fake Publishers That Are Ruining Science
For years, spurious journals have proliferated online, promising academic credibility in exchange for cash.

Home
Read website reviews, company details, technical analysis, and in-depth scam reports to help you decide if a site is trustworthy or fraudulent.

Meta’s “Trusted Experts” helped me run scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
A Reuters reporter created ads promising unrealistic investment returns and easily placed them on Meta's social media platforms.


Howtown

Part 1: What's good for Amazon is good for ... Amazon
How the world's largest company makes you pay more for less.

The Alt-Right Playbook x PhilosophyTube: Doublewrong
Why You Should Ignore Customer Feedback Sometimes
We’ve heard time and time again that one of the best ways to make sure your customers are happy with your products is to listen to what they tell you.

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenbeck/fake-reviews-…
This is crazy! The data from the study show patterns that make it nearly impossible for it to be legit. But we can learn a lot from the tone of the comments. "We have concerns about [x], please clarify." Out in the wild, this would be THESE IDIOTS FAKED THEIR STUDY!!
Health Nerd
This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen. A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself. pubpeer.com/publications/C08779C45DB6E407…