{"id":652,"date":"2009-01-20T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:27:03","slug":"fake-reviews-for-belkin-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/652","title":{"rendered":"Fake reviews for Belkin products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A practice known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astroturfing\">Astroturfing<\/a> is where someone affiliated to a product or party writes reviews in glowing terms and pretends that they are spontaneous from members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybackground.com\/2009\/01\/16\/exclusive-belkins-development-rep-is-hiring-people-to-write-fake-positive-amazon-reviews\/\">Belkin employee has been doing just that<\/a> to products that previously only had poor reviews at Amazon. If you follow the links through you get to a statement from the president of Belkin which, although admitting there is a problem, doesn&#8217;t fully answer the charges. Others have investigated and found many more suspicious reviews under various names, some very thinly disguised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A practice known as Astroturfing is where someone affiliated to a product or party writes reviews in glowing terms and pretends that they are spontaneous from members of the public. It looks like a Belkin employee has been doing just that to products that previously only had poor reviews at Amazon. If you follow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}