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'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
- BugsJustFindMe 6y agoWhy is "fake" in scare quotes? The accounts are fake.
- brown9-2 6y agoIt is not really clear which type of "fake" they are - if it is non-Amazon-employees making a parody, or someone at Amazon making a not-really-existing persona: > It is unclear whether the accounts are real employees, bots or trolls pretending to be Amazon Ambassadors.
- amelius 6y agoQuotes are not the appropriate tool to denote uncertainty.
- tomlagier 6y agoWhat is? I see quotes used this way in written communication fairly commonly.
- darkerside 6y agoIt is a way to indicate that you are not asserting the label, somebody else is. So it is actually a very useful way to indicate uncertainty. Amazon has deep pockets, and people don't want to be sued.
- oh_sigh 6y agoAmazon's own spokesperson called them fake. From the article: > “It appears that this is a fake account that violates Twitter’s terms,” the spokesperson said. “We’ve asked Twitter to investigate and take appropriate action.”
- amelius 6y agoI wouldn't call that an expression of uncertainty, though. The fact that it is not clear who made the statement cannot be deduced from the quotes.
- darkerside 6y agoI'm not saying what you appear to think I am saying. The author is making it clear that they are not the one who called the accounts fake. This implies uncertainty because if the accounts were objectively fake, there would be little need to add the quotation marks.
- colejohnson66 6y agoIt’s a common practice in journalism. They’re not using scare quotes, but regular quotes. They’re avoiding asserting themselves that the accounts are fake, and instead, diverting the assertion to the quotee (Amazon in this case).
- jethro_tell 6y agoIt is clear. Some of those were created with gmail addresses and done with the web client instead of sprinklr like the amazon fake accounts. Those all use amazon email accounts and sprinklr. Which obviously a real box packer isn't going to have a sprinklr acct so you know at the very best someone is getting a 15 minute break while a pr rep looks over their shoulder and more likely they all work at the same desk in a corporate office.
- brown9-2 6y agohow do you know what email someone signed up for Twitter with?
- jethro_tell 6y agoYou start the login process with the account that you want to know about, and then click, forgot password and start a password reset. Then twitter gives you a list with a radio button for the reset link. Send txt to: 555 ** *8 Email : na*****@g**.**
- cwkoss 6y agoThe profile pictures have visual artifacts consistent with GAN generation https://twitter.com/erikhinton/status/1376636650420203523 https://twitter.com/erikhinton/status/1376636650420203523
- Mordisquitos 6y agoThey are not "scare quotes", it is part of the BBC's style guide. It is to make clear that they are not the ones declaring that the accounts are fake, but that it is attributed to someone else.
- raincom 6y agoSo, it is to signify the use-mention distinction. BBC doesn't use it, but mentions it.
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- danaliv 6y agoThey're not scare quotes; they're someone-said quotes. It just means someone from the Beeb hasn't personally gone and physically investigated the authenticity of the accounts. It's the difference between the BBC claiming "these accounts are fake" vs. them claiming "so-and-so says these accounts are fake."
- skohan 6y agoI feel like authenticity of online communication is an unsolved problem. The web was supposed to be a democratizing platform: all you need to communicate with the world is an ISP and a keyboard. But if there's no way to control for authenticity, online sentiment will just be an arms race for who can pay for the best astroturfing.
- resonanttoe 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_... Perhaps there is something in this about internet communications coming/going full circle with more episodes like this Amazon fiasco.
- mox1 6y agoYes, and if you are somewhat tech savvy OR "grew up" on the internet (say 40 and younger) you understand this. The problem is previous generations who don't really understand this. Perhaps one angle to tackle the problem is to educate the group(s) of people who continue to believe whatever they read on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- barsonme 6y ago> Perhaps one angle to tackle the problem is to educate the group(s) of people who continue to believe whatever they read on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Unfortunately this isn’t just limited to the over 40 crowd. People are willing to believe whatever affirms their beliefs. Growing up on the Internet does not change this.
- failrate 6y agoI remember before common folk had internet, and there was still disinformation, misinformation, and plain bullshit.
- egypturnash 6y agoMedia literacy, marketing techniques, and propaganda techniques really need to be part of an elementary school education. But the US's education system is a giant underfunded mess, so good luck adding anything useful like that. I got a decent education in that sort of thing but it was entirely through my parents and stuff they got for me, Consumer Reports used to have a great kid's magazine that combined reviews of kid products with that sort of education, for instance.
- tcrow 6y agoThis is a problem the Voice.com social platform is attempting to tackle, read more about it here: https://about.voice.com/learn-more/ https://about.voice.com/learn-more/. I'm not affiliated with Voice in anyway, just someone who is eagerly awaiting open registration.
- kleer001 6y agoInteresting idea. Nothing to stop people being paid to voice another person's or company opinion though.
- tcrow 6y agoYou're right, technically there is nothing to prevent that from happening, but I think the idea is that you only get one "Voice", so if you want to align it to something you don't necessarily believe in for the sake of money, then you will have to suffer the consequences of that. Might be a good way to thwart paid attempts at spinning undeserved corporate-positive narratives.
- cecida 6y agoMeh, social network mixed up with some sort of cryptocurrency bullshit. Hard pass from me.
- CobrastanJorji 6y agoIt's funny how the ups and downs of evaluating a startup go: Phase 1: "Okay, it's a Real Names social network, seems probably fine." Phase 2: "Oh no, some sort of token economy. Well, maybe it--" Phase 3: "Nevermind, it said the word 'blockchain,' abandon ship, this is doomed."
- heckerhut 6y agoWell you could’ve guessed 3 when reading 2.
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- ruste 6y agoIs it possible this is some galaxy brain plan by those promoting amazon unions to undermine amazon's credibility?
- uoaei 6y agoWho do you think has more time and money to contribute to this kind of thing? Union organizers who are already overwhelmed just trying to reach the people they're trying to help, or the company which delivers almost everything to almost everyone and made more money than most countries' GDPs?
- oh_sigh 6y agoThat's a good point. Unions have never done anything shady, they're too busy feeding the poor and rescuing kittens in trees. Snark aside, OP never said it was the union doing it. It could just be someone outside the potential union members who just supports unions in general, or doesn't support Amazon, who is doing it. What other explanation is there? Do you think there is some die-hard Amazon supporter who goes out of their way to generate fake profiles and then post messages that wouldn't sway anyone?
- ruste 6y agoSomewhere in another thread someone suggested that amazon had a program and incentives for employees to represent them positively online so maybe it is just poor PR on their part. Still, these days it's hard to take anything at face value.
- oh_sigh 6y agoYes, that's their ambassador program. But I doubt that the ambassador program would tell the members to create unverified accounts and try to pass them off as official amazon ambassador accounts.
- uoaei 6y agoEssentializing all unions based on the behavior of a few of them, vs summarizing a single company's behavior who has a visible and obvious track record of breaking up unionization efforts via nefarious and underhanded tactics, are completely incomparable. If you want snark, have some back: where did the big bad union boss touch you? > What other explanation is there? Hired a shoddy offshore bot-writing and astroturfing outfit who are obviously not up to the job. It's a very simple, and one of the most likely, explanations. Occam's razor comes in handy occasionally if you just take the time to think a bit.
- asdff 6y agoThis reminds me of the "fake" uber drivers who were texting me last election to vote yes on their hand tailored, virtually immutable proposition 22. Unfortunately this sort of easy stuff works on so many people. Prop 22 passed with 58% of the vote and they won. The cynic in me says Amazon knows they won't lose.
- vecter 6y agoThat's b/c Prop 22 actually left many drivers worse off. The majority of drivers prefer flexibility.
- Matticus_Rex 6y agoYou mean the real Uber drivers who correctly understood that Prop 22 would allow them to voluntarily work in the way they want to work, despite the fact that well-meaning busybodies didn't like it?
- asdff 6y agoNo, they literally hired actors for their headshots. (1,2). Drivers also sued Uber for the barage of texts sent to them trying to sway their support on the issue (3). 1. https://i.imgur.com/JlZIpAI.jpg https://i.imgur.com/JlZIpAI.jpg 2. https://www.backstage.com/u/alisha-elaine-anderson/ https://www.backstage.com/u/alisha-elaine-anderson/ 3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/22/uber-prop22-suit/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/22/uber-pr...
- naturalauction 6y agoI hated the Prop. 22 campaign as much as anyone else (the notifications from the Uber app were especially egregious) but just because someone is an actor doesn't mean they can't drive for Uber. I remember reading that a lot of actors (who aren't super wealthy) actually drive for Uber as the hours are very flexible.
- nerdponx 6y agoIs this illegal? It should be illegal.
- uniqueid 6y agoI'd rather we redesigned the internet to make sock-puppetry so difficult and costly as to make its legality irrelevant.
- nerdponx 6y agoWhy not both?
- cyberlab 6y agoYou can't fight astroturfing without resorting to astroturfing yourself. You have to play the game and do counter-narratives to stop this. The law can't keep up with sockpuppetry. It's too rampant to kill. Welcome to The Internet.
- nerdponx 6y agoThat doesn't mean it shouldn't be illegal, that just means it's hard to enforce.
- tablespoon 6y agoThis old TechCrunch article from 2018 (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter-army-of-amazon-drones-cheerfully-defending-warehouse-work/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/what-is-this-weird-twitter...) posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26636153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26636153 has a former "Amazon Ambassador" actually explain that job: > An actual former ambassador and three year Florida warehouse veteran Chris Grantham explained it in more detail to Yahoo Finance’s Krystal Hu, who shared the information with TechCrunch: >> When I was there they just got an extra paid day off and a gift card after Peak [pre-holiday season]. This is what I got. A paid day off (that expired in 3 weeks lol) and a $50 Amazon gift card. Plus, they gave us lunch. Coldcuts and sandwich bread. I absolutely did not get paid more to train people. >> Ambassador isn’t a ‘job’ you do every day, its just something you are trained to do. You go to a 4 hour class and they teach you how to teach others to tie a knot using a set of instructions. This is how new hires a supposed to be taught. You are supposed to teach them right from a script using a set protocol. Becoming an ambassador was a way to get out of loading trucks, or packing boxes for 10 to 12 hrs. You may ambassador 1 day then unload trucks for the next 3. >> I stopped doing it after the first year I was there because it didn’t pay more. It’s voluntary. Your manager picks them. Generally speaking ambassadors are the “kiss asses” of the department. > In case it isn’t obvious, Chris is no longer at Amazon and is happy to speak his mind. Thanks for helping us clear this up, Chris.
- elmomle 6y agoWow, does that ever sound inspired by the Kapo system in Nazi camps. (edit: It was wrong of me to evoke Nazism due to its emotional connotations. I was reminded of the psychological systems of coercion that have been used all through history to efficiently keep oppressed people in line--which Amazon's actions reek of--but could have more effectively expressed my thoughts by saying "that sounds like a psychologically abusive system", or something of the sort.
- nemo44x 6y agoReally? Did the Nazis give their prisoners a day out of the camp and 50 Deutschmark to treat themselves with? I don’t think it’s fair to compare this to genocide camps.
- marshmallow_12 6y agoa similar article was up yesterday. I only think it's a problem (edit: the ethics are another story..) if these accounts aren't upfront about being employed by Amazon to do such work. The impression i got from reading yesterdays article is that this is not the case.
- cecida 6y agoImagine being worth 185 billion dollars and still obsessing about your workers advocating for better pay and conditions? What a miserable existence that must be. Bezos has always struck me as a man who cares about nothing else only his own personal wealth and success. There is no joy in his life.
- hooande 6y agohow would you respond if people said you were treating your employees unfairly? financial worth has nothing to do with it. if he feels that charge is untrue, he should push back against it. I would not be nearly as measured in my response. no sir, I am not the one
- gsk22 6y agoFinancial worth absolutely has to do with the fairness or lack thereof. Bezos has created nearly 200 billion dollars (!) of wealth for himself since founding Amazon, so debating the moral value of those gains in comparison to how everyday employees are compensated is well within reason. And if my employees said I was treating them unfairly, I would try to understand their perspective and make changes to improve working conditions. But maybe that's why I'll never be a CEO.
- fenderbluesjr 6y agoSome people don't think that 'fair treatment' should be determined with the bosses wealth as a factor
- nautilus12 6y agoDoes no one suspect any longer that Amazon is behind this? The Twitter Amazon partnership makes no sense if not for this purpose. The Parler situation suddenly has a new light, I guarantee if you dig hard enough you will find amazon had a nefarious part to play in in.
- hooande 6y agoNo way a company with the resources of Amazon is using several day old twitter accounts with first google result profile pictures. This is the equivalent of someone spray painting "We hate workers! signed, Amazon" on a wall I don't think even twitter can verify who made those accounts because it's so easy to vpn and use google voice numbers. You can choose what to believe, though
- nautilus12 6y agoUnless they wanted to have evidence that they tried to do something about it (but in much smaller proportion to the accounts they let slip by)
- colejohnson66 6y agoYou don’t even need a phone number to sign up for Twitter. Just an email account.
- BoiledCabbage 6y agoAmazon knows full well the benefits of fake reviews, and they absolutely would pay their employees to give fake reviews. As they were reported to have started doing in 2019. Their employees would likely be the ones creating cheap profiles.
- hooande 6y agoIf they're paying employees, why make fake accounts? Personally, as a trillion dollar entity, I would pay people to use their real accounts and give me glowing reviews. I would pay $0 for a tweet from an obviously fake account, what's the point in that?
- tartoran 6y agoTo amplify the sentiment. They could pay people/organizations to take care of that. Those organizations constantly create fake accounts to change how something is perceived. Remember the Net neutrality FCC fake comments?
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- elwell 6y agoThe question is: are they fake accounts or fake fake accounts? The latter would be a pretty ingenious smear campaign.
- disabled 6y agoSome bots producing fake reviews on Amazon are just too funny to write off. My favorite (https://www.amazon.com/Evaluation-Astroskin-Behavioral-Self-Monitoring-Spaceflight/dp/B01BJCADZO#customerReviews https://www.amazon.com/Evaluation-Astroskin-Behavioral-Self-...): "Wow!!!!! this product exceeded all my expectations. When I travel through space, I have always wished there was a way to measure my vital signs without bulky hardware and uncomfortable wires! Arun's project report taught me everything I needed to know about the benefits and limitations of astroskin! Now I can purchase this system for myself and my crew with confidence that I did not have before. I highly recommend this report to anyone wanting to measure their blood pressure in space or other extremely harsh environments." The product is being sold for $169.43 on Amazon, and is actually a PDF available for free via NASA.gov. See: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150021842/downloads/20150021842.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150021842/downloads/20... As for the peeing in bottles thing, Amazon is not that smart. There are people that look completely normal, that experience life-threatening autonomic dysreflexia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_dysreflexia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_dysreflexia) from having to hold their bladder, even if it is just for seconds, like me. Perhaps I should try working in a US Amazon warehouse. It would be perfect lawsuit material and the ultimate power play against their inhumane policies around toileting breaks.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoWhat makes you think it's a bot or paid shill, not a human that found it funny that someone is selling such bullshit and making fun of that fact?
- ldbooth 6y agoDoes anyone else think that Amazon news handle is doing damage to their brand? Silence seems like a better strategy. they must view this union vote as the beginning of the end.
- cwkoss 6y agoIs there a law that prohibits a company from pretending to be employees to broadcast fake anti-union sentiment? Certainly seems like there should be. I would love to see Amazon slapped with a billion dollar fine for these shenanigans.
- marcod 6y agoI'd like to point out that there are plenty of workers who don't believe Unions would be good for them... or they were "convinced" in some form. While it's obvious that the accounts were created by corporate you don't know if the tweets are those of real workers or not.
- rq1 6y agoTrue Amazon workers try to deny their coworkers their basic rights.
- booleandilemma 6y agoWhy can't we just have a social network that requires you to sign up using your government ID? No bots, no fake accounts - problem solved. There won't be any anonymity on that network, sure, but there are plenty of other social networks where you can be anonymous.
- brown9-2 6y agoWhy should I trust a social network company with my government ID when often they can’t even keep my password secure? Or why would I want to use a social network with onerous signup terms?
- throwawaysea 6y ago> There won't be any anonymity on that network, sure That's exactly why. It would allow ideas and speech with psychological safety to proliferate while everything else is shut down. It's bad enough already due to voluntary censorship (cancel culture).
- maxwell 6y agoHow would you authenticate the physical documents? https://osamabinnaughty.github.io/FakeID-Barcode/sc.html https://osamabinnaughty.github.io/FakeID-Barcode/sc.html
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoI mean Bluechecks spread misinformation and harass people all the time. Not sure how verification solves anything.
- TheAceOfHearts 6y agoWell, it definitely means you have far more at stake every time you comment or participate, since you're putting your reputation on the line and creating a public record. However, I ultimately don't think requiring IDs would be effective and it would probably expose at-risk and vulnerable groups to greater retaliatory action. It's arguably a bit classist as well, since only those who are sufficiently rich and powerful enough to protect themselves would be able to participate with impunity.
- auiya 6y agoCan any former Amazon employees confirm if Amazon is indeed a cult? Do we need an intervention? Blink once for yes, twice for no.
- Jamieee 6y agoThey're not a cult, they are... checks leadership principles having backbone and disagreeing with you.
- marcod 6y agoI don't think it's a cult. (I've been out for 5 years) But if you want to keep your job, you don't speak out publicly ( https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/18/Fired-Amazon-Designer-Punished/ https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/18/Fired-Amazon-Designer-Pun... )
- auiya 6y agoI guess this is why I'm being downvoted by current cult members.
- _wldu 6y agoPar for the course.
- mouzogu 6y agowow, I love Amazon for the convenience they've brought to my life but this is about as slimy as it gets...
- techaty 6y agowant to try amazon prime for free? Then try amazon working cookies at https://techaty.com/amazon-prime-video-cookies/ https://techaty.com/amazon-prime-video-cookies/
- slibhb 6y agoNearly everyone involved in this debate is "fake". The people railing against Amazon are mostly people who have never done manual labor in their lives and (wrongly) view people who have as little better than slaves. Even the Amazon (or ex-Amazon) employees who speak against the company are doing so in an environment where the only tolerated sentiment is attacking Amazon. There's no room for nuance. Perhaps that's okay and reasonable new provisions for Amazon employees will come out of all this or perhaps the debate will get less and less rational. This situation makes me think of Ikiru, a Kurosawa movie. The main character is dying. He looks around for meaning in life and eventually settles upon a former employee of his, a young girl. He spends time with her and buys her things just to be around her, not out of any romantic of sexual motive, just because he's drawn to her liveliness, her attitude toward the world. Eventually she gets tired of this situation and no longer wants to see him. As she leaves, he begs her to tell him how she's so happy. She explains that she now works in a factory making toys for Japanese kids and this gives her life meaning. The main character decides that he can make his life meaningful by creating something durable in the world for other people before he dies. My point is that we often view workers as oppressed but an Amazon warehouse worker contributes in a very real way to billions of people getting things that they need. I write code for a living and I'm not convinced that I contribute any more to the world than an Amazon warehouse worker. And don't think the workers are unaware of this, some of them take pride in it, whether or not they express it on twitter, and they should. A lot of this comes down to your attitude toward the world. Are you a pessimist? Do you view human interaction as oppressive, is it mainly comprised of corrupt, powerful people manipulating kind, weak people? Or are you an optimist? Do you find it remarkable that things work as well as they do, do you take pride in your part, no matter how small, in keeping civilization afloat? Neither of these sentiments is wrong but only one is taken seriously in certain circles.
- rideontime 6y agoThe (fictional) woman in your story probably wouldn't be so happy if she was constantly being pushed to work faster, take fewer breaks, lest she be automatically fired by some faceless algorithm designed solely to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of her and the other workers. The point isn't that this kind of work is unavoidably miserable, it's that Amazon is doing everything it its power to make it as miserable as possible.
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- k__ 6y agoI guess, the time for PGP has finally come.
- argc 6y agoAs a current AWS employee, I can say I'm proud to be working for AWS (at least my organization) but incredibly embarrassed to be working for Amazon. I had written a much more scathing comment about the Amazon side of the business but I'm not sure what is allowed under hacker news's community guidelines.
- heckerhut 6y agoPlease do!
- colinprince 6y agolet's hear it
- sp332 6y agoJust check https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nexuist 6y agoAt a risk of sounding holier-than-thou, this is why I never cared to apply to FAANG like my fellow CS students did. You can spend your entire career doing useful, impactful work that helps millions of people and all it takes is one out of touch bozo in management to pull some embarrassing stunt like this to ruin all the trust you've built with disadvantaged communities. Of course this is true for all large companies, but nobody fights fire with astroturfing quite like big tech. I wish these people would get it together so we wouldn't have to be ashamed of working for them.
- barbacoa 6y agoI am looking forward to the day that twitter is nothing more than Russian bots arguing with CIA bots arguing with Chinese bots arguing with corporate shill bots. And the only people being fooled are advertisers and twitter investors.
- ezekg 6y agoWelcome to that day! except it's not bots as you imagined -- it's programmed people.
- asdff 6y agoI read an article where Russia's Internet Research Agency learned it was easier to just take existing propaganda and memes, amplify them past the long tail of engagement with their bots, and let the racist hateful online population snowball that message organically for them. People aren't rational, we are inherently emotional. Reason and logic need to be taught, and controlling your emotions is one of the hardest things you can do as a human. These propaganda just play into our basic primal fears of safety and the unknown at its root. It's not hard to engage with these emotions, especially if what you are sharing already goes along with this established worldview that some have, cultivated by years of past propaganda. I'm not sure how you reset this, given so many people live in lives where they aren't exposed to other perspectives nor seek them out.
- ezekg 6y ago> so many people live in lives where they aren't exposed to other perspectives I don't think it's that people aren't exposed to other perspectives -- it's that people have been programmed to be vitriol of other perspectives. It's the ever growing polarization of world views. I'm not sure how to reset it either.
- asdff 6y agoI think exposure at least offers you the opportunity of engagement with other perspectives. If your dad is racist but you go to school and make a black friend, that might change your perspective vs. if you lived in an area where mostly white people lived, and you had no practical experience to weigh against your dad's racist perspective. A lot of people stay siloed, especially after schooling ends. They work with the same people for decades, attend the same church, or otherwise cement their social circle for the most part, since there are fewer opportunities to meet people from different perspectives as an adult. This is in contrast to say undergrad, where half the kids in your dorm were from another country and everyone is looking to make friends as soon as possible, or public school where you make friends both rich and poor because you don't see class really when you are six years old, you just want to play tag.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoTwitter just masquarades as legitimate communication, but more than half ot is is fake, bots, trolls, 'influencers' and psycos. How does civilised society survive if 90% of our communication go online to platforms like this? This cannot continue, there must be real consequences for puposeful mass deception. I have recently gone through some of my old tweets where I replied (respectfully) to some climate deniers and fairly far right-wing accounts. All those posts are now deleted or the accounts have been closed. Where they all fake bot accounts? Who did I reply to? Did it even matter?
- 4684499 6y ago> It is unclear whether the accounts are real employees, bots or trolls pretending to be Amazon Ambassadors. Personally I would wait for more evidence to judge (which seems unlikely to happen). It's not so hard to operate a false flag on platforms like Twitter.
- beshrkayali 6y agoThere are plenty of reason to hate Amazon and their policies, but this doesn't seem like something they'd actually do. More like an amateur anti-Amazon activist stunt to make them look bad.
- jcadam 6y agoUsed to work for an employer that was obsessed with its glassdoor rating. Negative reviews of the company were drowned out with tons of identical-sounding glowing reviews that I'm pretty sure were written by interns. We were actually "highly encouraged" during new hire orientation to go on glassdoor and leave a good review - that was the first hint I made a mistake in accepting the job. It was a pretty awful place to work.
- sequoia 6y agoIs there any indication/proof that these accounts were in fact created or run by Amazon? This certainly seems a lot like someone is trolling: https://twitter.com/15Deloreans/status/1376678761630998533 https://twitter.com/15Deloreans/status/1376678761630998533 1. Create fake accounts supporting amazon 2. tip your hand that they're fake 3. BBC reports on amazon creating fake accounts
- ezekg 6y agoLook up the "Fifty Cent Army." You'd be naive to believe other corporations and governments do not play the game.
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- aero-glide2 6y agoJust speculating, what if this was a false flag? Someone against Amazon creates a bunch of fake accounts and posts pro-Amazon stuff. Then sends those accounts to journalists.