Facebook employees were caught writing 5-star reviews for its Portal device on Amazon (tr)

Business Insider ^ | January 18, 2019 | Isobel Asher Hamilton

[EdnaMode]

They aren't the only ones who've done that. Some college professors give themselves rave reviews on Rate My Professor. Movie and TV show producers review their own shows online too.

[aimhigh]

I don’t trust any Amazon review with less than 100 reviews.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

I don’t trust Facebook. Period.

[lgjhn23]

That’s all an insane commie lib knows to do: lie, lie, lie......and, oh yeah, steal and spend other peoples’ money.

[for-q-clinton]

They probably do really like it. Or are they being paid to say it’s good? There’s a difference. Often times people are fans of their company products. Like Swordmaker loving apple. No difference.

[upchuck]

This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.

If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.

[Seruzawa]

Most internet ad hits are from bots written by the site owners. Fake reviews have been a staple of the internet since the first review page was opened. Fscts of life. Everything you see on the net is faked.

[Osage Orange]

Kinda like Pols getting phone banks to runnn the bank...in their favor?

[\/\/ayne]

I remember catching a judge making comments about election opponent in the paper while pretending to be another person - she forgot and posted as herself under the other name. The opponent filed a complaint with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct but they only gave a reprimand because this judge was very left-wing. They also just gave a reprimand for her trying to use her influence to get other charges against her son dropped.

This (thankfully former) judge did a lot of crazy things and just lost another election but my point is I think people who post glowing reviews about themselves or play similar name games are nuts.

[SunkenCiv]

I'm just glad that Amazon and Google are still trustworthy...

Alexa, Do You Work For the Government?

[BobL]

“Alexa, Do You Work For the Government?”

While I can’t speak for Ms. Alexa, for the first time in my life I did have the experience of having my driver license swiped when buying alcohol, and it’s not like I just graduated college last week here in Texas. I’ve heard of it happening in bars, but never seen it. Who knows where this data goes - maybe to my doctor?

So, Walgreen’s, the wine was good, and reasonably priced, but our relationship is now over...

[relictele]

Hate to say it but I look for reviews with less than perfect spelling and grammar as signs of authenticity.

The fake reviews are invariably full of exclamation points and gushing superlatives and usually short on details or any drawbacks.

[Leep]

I like the sarcastic reviews the best.:)

[Pearls Before Swine]

Facebook employees have been caught leaving glowing reviews on Amazon for Facebook's new video-chat device.

"Team, team, team!"

Also, nothing lately has reminded me more of 1984 than the two-way video of this Portal. Sure, we've had cameras on our computers and phones for years, but they are usually more deliberately used on a person to person basis. When you couple the two-way portal with FB's murky definitions of privacy, you're getting 1984-like hardware and software.

In my mind, you think the damn thing is shut off, and you do or say something a-politic, and it starts to chide you, or connects you to a Facebook Monitor. Bad, bad, bad.

[ptsal]

Think about the potential for Pokeman-Go to gather the interior layout of buildings.

[petitfour]

Think about those RATS “lost” and looking for Senator McConnell’s office and being recorded all over the building the other day. I don’t think that was innocent.

[ptsal]

What about the ZOOM app? It associates the face, phone number, IP address, voice and can record content. But it is free!!!

[antidemoncrat]

Facebook = Fakebook

[Retvet]

What do you expect from liberal liars?

[minnesota_bound]

I beginning to think that the internet is full of scoundrels.