EST. MMXXVI · A PUBLIC RECORD
2 CONFESSIONS · 42 CASESConfess
CR-03116.07.MMXXVI

I ran review operations for a marketplace seller. Free products for five stars, refunds after a screenshot, templates that read like genuine disappointment before the redemption arc. Thousands of reviews, none of them true. Strangers bought garbage on the strength of my fiction.

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Source He, Hollenbeck & Proserpio, "The Market for Fake Reviews," Marketing Science 41(5):896–921 (2022)

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Fake reviewsAstroturfingDeceptive design

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