The proliferation of online reviews has transformed consumer decision-making, yet it has also given rise to sophisticated schemes of fake review generation and spam. Researchers have developed a ...

Trustpilot, formed in 2007, is a site that aggregates user reviews of companies and websites. The company boasts 238 million reviews on its site, having reviewed nearly a million sites across 50 ...

Online shoppers put a lot of weight on product reviews. A study by Northwestern University found that shoppers are 270 percent more likely to buy a product if it has five reviews versus one with no ...

In the age of online reviews, a single fabricated comment can have a devastating impact on a healthcare provider's reputation. Research indicates that approximately 10.7% of reviews on Google are fake ...

If you have been scammed by online reviews on websites like Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Best Buy Co Inc. (NYSE:BBY), or Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT), Mozilla Firefox is here to save you. What Happened: ...

If you are planning to shop for the holidays coming up soon, you might want to be careful about fake reviews. Fake reviews are a serious problem for online retailers like Amazon because they can ...