restaurant based on a TripAdvisor review, only to leave totally disappointed by the food?You aren't the only one to fall victim to a suspiciously positive review.
The travel review site was forced to delete almost a million fake reviews in 2020, as struggling restaurants tried to boost their profiles by any means necessary during the lockdown.Luckily, fake reviews only made up a very small percentage—3.6%—of the 26,000,000 reviews the site received overall last year.
TripAdvisor claims its secret army of review police (aka the moderation team) was able to catch 67.1% of them before they ever made it to the site.
So can anyone be trusted anymore? Or do you need to rely solely on word-of-mouth and aggressive waiters ushering you in off the.
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