TripAdvisor Fined In Italy For Fake Reviews

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @07:09PM from the italy:-1-star,-didn't-elect-me-king dept.

mpicpp writes with news that TripAdvisor, a travel website filled with user-generated reviews, has been hit with a €500,000 ($611,000) fine for "misleading customers" by failing to cull fake reviews from their list. "The regulator complained that people reading TripAdvisor Italy were unable to distinguish between genuine and fake reviews posted on the site. It said both were presented by TripAdvisor as 'authentic and genuine in nature.' Demanding payment of the fine within 30 days, the ICA also accused the travel company of failing to provide proper checks to weed out bogus postings."

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Re:This by Jorgensen · 2014-12-23 19:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Parent is incorrect! (and in need of a spell checker) Mod parent down! (Let's show them that the moderation system works better than anything Tripadvisor has)
Re:This by ls671 · 2014-12-23 19:29 · Score: 5, Funny

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