Amazon Sues Facebook Group Admins Over Massive Fake Reviews Plot – Gizmodo

Fake reviews were allegedly left on Amazon sites in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.Image: Denis Charlet (Getty Images)Amazon has filed lawsuits against the administrators of over 10,000 Facebook groups that are allegedly part of a network to recruit individuals to leave fake reviews for products on Amazon in exchange for money or free products.Amazon, of course, is the marketplace where you can have unfettered access to almost any product you need. Likewise, Amazon’s trusted review system is usually an honest way to get a look at the quality of products—well, sort of. Today, Amazon revealed in a press release that it filed a lawsuit against the administrators of over 10,000 Facebook groups. These groups are reportedly part of a coordinated effort to recruit individuals to leave fake reviews for different products on Amazon stores in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan“Our teams stop millions of suspicious reviews before they’re ever seen by customers, and this lawsuit goes a step further to uncover perpetrators operating on social media,” said Dharmesh Mehta in the press release. Mehta is Amazon’s Vice President of Selling Partner Services. “Proactive legal action targeting bad actors is one of…
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