Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics

http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/04/robot-trolls-on-amazon-how-fake-reviews-could-undermine-progressive-politics/
Date Written:  2019-10-04
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23948

In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.