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How Can We Spot Fake Product Reviews?

One question for Brett Hollenbeck, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles. The post How Can We Spot Fake Product Reviews? appeared first on Nautilus.

One question for Brett Hollenbeck, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studies, among other things, the economics of online reviews and ratings on online platforms, and the regulation of rating manipulation on these platforms.

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How can we spot fake product reviews?

t’s actually quite difficult to tell what’s fake. The people writing them

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