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- Amazon full of sponsored reviews https://www.amazon.com/gp/vine/help?%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8 28 comments
- Sellers are sending Amazon items to strangers to hack verified reviews. https://www.thedailybeast.com/someone-is-sending-amazon-sex-toys-to-strangers-amazon-has-no-idea-how-to-stop-it 2 comments
- Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/fake-amazon-book-reviews-are-hurting-my-book.html 117 comments
- Hey Reddit: Sean Hannity's new book, "Conservative Victory" has over 30 falsehoods, smears and distortions. Let's Amazon-Review-Bomb his book with negative reviews so that this piece of trash doesn't get any more money off of Lies! http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=utf8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2F0062003054%3Fie%3Dutf8%26ref_%3Dsr%5F1%5F1%5Fcm%5Fcr%5Facr%5Ftxt%26showviewpoints%3D1%26qid%3D1271624933%26sr%3D8-1&tag=chambook-20&linkcode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 23 comments politics
- Amazon sues 1,114 'fake reviewers' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34565631#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=publicrss20-sa 897 comments technology
- Was The 5-Star Review You Saw On Amazon Paid For By Freebies? https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/amazon-reviews-ratings-fake-bribing-customers_in_5d1ddb71e4b04c48140fa8a8?m3c 3 comments india
- Amazon Sues More Sellers for Buying Fake Reviews https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/27/amazon-sues-more-sellers-for-buying-fake-reviews/ 60 comments technology
- $40K TV triggers a flurry of hilarious Amazon reviews http://www.gapyear.com/news/214653/40k-tv-triggers-a-flurry-of-hilarious-amazon-reviews 94 comments technology
- Amazon reviews may be corrupt http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387749,00.asp 4 comments business
- Some of Amazon's "Top 10" Reviewers exposed as disingenuous shills http://www.slate.com/id/2182002/pagenum/all/ 24 comments reddit.com
- Amazon Lightsail Review: The user-friendly VPS solution from AWS https://ayesh.me/amazon-lightsail-review 9 comments webdev
- Amazon reviewers skewer Trump’s fancy Christmas ornament https://www.yahoo.com/news/amazon-reviewers-skewer-trumps-fancy-christmas-ornament-143322831.html 11 comments politics
- My Review of Inspector, Amazon's New Security Assessment Tool https://www.hurricanelabs.com/blog/amazon-inspector-review 3 comments netsec
- Commission president gives AstraZeneca 1-star review on Amazon https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/the-luxembourg-wurst/a/1662483.html 5 comments europe
- Amazon is filled with fake reviews and it's getting harder to spot them https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/06/amazon-reviews-thousands-are-fake-heres-how-to-spot-them.html 3072 comments technology
- Trump's Christmas ornament flooded with bad Amazon reviews http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/307473-people-are-leaving-tons-of-fake-reviews-on-amazon-for-trumps 11 comments politics
- What It’s Like To Be One Of Amazon’s Top Reviewers: 'I Get Death Threats' http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-top-reviewers-vine-voices-2014-12?utm_source=linkedin-ticker&utm_medium=referral 5 comments business
- Educate the public and write a real review of your Belkin router on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=utf8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3Dutf8%26search-alias%3Daps%26ref%255f%3Dsr%255fkk%255f3%26qid%3D1232253639%26field-keywords%3Dbelkin%2520router&tag=irlxt-20&linkcode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 4 comments reddit.com
- Spore gets a 1 star review on Amazon due to DRM. Incredible. http://www.amazon.com/spore-pc/dp/b000fkbcx4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=utf8&s=videogames&qid=1220904841&sr=8-1 264 comments technology
- Amazon Book Reviews (by someone who hasn't read the books!) - Hilarious http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/a23664px3vilks/ref=cm_cr_auth/103-5626492-0754242?%5Fencoding=utf8 49 comments reddit.com
- Amazon’s iRobot Deal Seen Facing Tough FTC Antitrust Review https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-irobot-deal-seen-facing-193027723.html 10 comments economics
- Amazon flooded by fake five-star reviews https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47941181 4 comments technology
- Amazon reviewing website after algorithm suggests bomb-making ingredients http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-security-amazon-com/amazon-reviewing-website-after-algorithm-suggests-bomb-making-ingredients-iduskcn1bv1wk?il=0 7 comments nottheonion
- Bestselling Author Caught Posting Positive Reviews of His Own Work on Amazon http://gawker.com/5940254/bestselling-author-caught-posting-positive-reviews-of-his-own-work-on-amazon 4 comments technology
- Writing a fake 5/5 rating review for Belkin on Amazon or Newegg -> 65 cents WTF? http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/17/belkin-paying-65-cents-for-good-reviews-on-newegg-and-amazon/ 65 comments reddit.com
- Amazon is taking legal action against four companies it has accused of deliberately flooding its shopping platform with fake reviews https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61348521 43 comments worldnews
- China Ordered Amazon to Delete Reviews of Xi Jinping’s Book, Reuters Reports https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-ordered-amazon-delete-reviews-022215012.html 263 comments technews
- The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses http://lithub.com/the-50-best-one-star-amazon-reviews-of-james-joyces-ulysses/ 72 comments books
- What’s the real story behind all the negative reviews Barkha Dutt’s book is receiving on Amazon? http://www.newslaundry.com/2015/12/17/whats-the-real-story-behind-all-the-negative-reviews-barkha-dutts-new-book-is-receiving-on-amazon/ 6 comments india
- Google engineer leaves scathing reviews of dodgy USB Type-C cables on Amazon http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leaves-scathing-reviews-of-dodgy-usb-type-c-cables-on-amazon/ 66 comments hardware
- Once Again, Amazon Has Deleted Almost All Of The Negative Reviews For L. Ron Hubbards "Dianetics", Giving It 4.2 Out Of 5 Rating http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/088404632x?ie=utf8&tag=stalisugge-20&linkcode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeasin=088404632x 32 comments reddit.com
- While searching for a Jabulani ball on Amazon, I came across this little gem - read the first review. http://www.amazon.com/adidas-world-official-match-soccer/product-reviews/b002n4ft16/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=utf8&showviewpoints=1&qid=1277384903&sr=8-1 17 comments soccer
- Lone Star Statements: Excerpts from actual one-star Amazon reviews of classic books http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/lone_star_statements.php? 2 comments reddit.com
- Amazon Wants to Review Your Sleep. (No, Thanks.) | The new Halo Rise studies your body and breathing and rates your restfulness, from “Poor” to “Great.” Who needs this? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/technology/personaltech/amazon-halo-rise-review.html 103 comments technology
- US Senator Elizabeth Warren Seeks To Break Up Amazon Amid India Controversy | Amazon documents reviewed by Reuters showed how company's private-brands team in India secretly exploited internal data from its India unit to copy products sold by other companies, then offered them on its platform https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/us-senator-elizabeth-warren-seeks-to-break-up-amazon-amid-india-controversy-2576415 9 comments india
- Amazon removes item titled "Living Wages for Amazon Workers" from site within two hours after getting hundreds of positive reviews http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/12/farke-book-amazon-living-wage-jeff-bezos?cmp=twt_gu 6 comments technology
- Amazon flooded with reviews mocking anti-gay, anti-abortion, climate change skeptic Cory Bernardi's and his book The Conservative Revolution http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/amazon-flooded-with-reviews-mocking-cory-bernardis-book-the-conservative-revolution-20140107-30f4e.html 183 comments worldnews
- Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy -- Man opens website offering to write paid book reviews online. Two years later he's making $28,000 a month, pumping up writers' Amazon ratings. Reviews "have to be somewhere between enthusiastic and ecstatic" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-demand-for-online-raves.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all 6 comments business
- Andrew Wakefield, the guy who published the first article linking autism to vaccines has writtena book! Care to fill in some correct tags or reviews on Amazon? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1616081694/ 15 comments science
- The professor, his wife, and the secret, savage book reviews on Amazon 'An extraordinary literary "whodunnit" over the identity of a mystery reviewer who savaged works by some of Britain's leading academics on Amazon http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/18/amazon-orlando-figes-books 4 comments books