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Do fakespot and similar services work?

• Someone1234 4y ago
  Fakespot does its best, but Amazon and similar don't expose very much information to determine if a review is fake (be it manual review OR via a service like Fakespot). Plus there are two kinds of "fake reviews": Automated reviews ("spam"), and then reviewers who got free samples/paid. The second is almost impossible to detect as real people are really writing the reviews (and even calling them "fake" is hard because the person may still give an honest review sometimes). You can sometimes spot fake reviews, but that is just due to laziness, if they're trying even a little bit it could be very hard to spot in particularly at volume. I will say one good trick is to read "new" reviews rather than most helpful/liked, since they game those too.