Sentences with phrase «fake reviewers in»

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In 2012, the Elsevier journal Optics & Laser Technology retracted 11 papers after an unknown party gained access to an editor's account and assigned papers to fake reviewer accounts.

In at least one case, the authors of a retracted article claim they didn't use an agency and did not propose fake reviewers — which suggests the journal's editors invited the fake review instead.

Blanford — a senior lecturer in biomaterials at the University of Manchester, UK — thought it was an «amusing coincidence» that he was chosen as a fake reviewer, given that he has written about malpractice in academic publishing.

Check out FAKESPOT.COM sometime and look at the ratings for the items in the «Gold Box» and you will see that most of them get an «F» rating for being full of fake shill reviews from paid reviewers.

As well as writing five - star reviews to help boost sales, these fake book reviewers can also offer to fabricate negative posts for individuals and businesses in an attempt to sabotage rival authors and books.

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This year Amazon filed three separate lawsuits in the past year targeting more than 1,000 alleged fake reviewers.

The idea of stealing another writer's words or trying to discredit them or falsifying reviews or trying to have people write fake reviews of my work sounds crazy to me, but I am guilty of highlighting the parts of the PW review that I liked most about my most recent book; it was a mixed review bc the reviewer thought the novel had too many coincidences / was too neatly wrapped up at the end, but that's one of my signatures, I think, now that I've written three books, two published, and one in the works, so I'm actually proud of the strange kismet, sometimes magical occurrences that happen in my work because they also happen in my life, and that's what this whole post is about: about being true to oneself, which includes a moral code, a writers and human code of ethics.

4) The scammers who are paying for reviews are creating a situation where the paid reviewers are having to sprinkle in other fake reviews on non-paid-for items in order to make their accounts seem legitimate, so innocent bystanders are being taken out in the side effects of the paid review marketplace.

The online book retailer has announced that it will sue 1,114 «fake reviewers» in a lawsuit filed in Seattle, Washington.

In the UK store a fake reviewer hit me and a group of other books with a one star on the same day and identical ambiguous review «rubbish» and amazon stated each reader is entitled to an opinion.

It's fine to have a review account in a fake name to keep a reviewer safe from retaliation.

But where I work journal editors were recently warned to check addresses provided for suggested reviewers in case the name was real and appropriate, but the address was fake.

It can be difficult to spot fake reviews, and so pay attention to language (real reviews are typically more moderate in praise), research the reviewer if need be, check how many reviews are available and when they were posted (too many can be a red flag), and check multiple review sites, not just the lawyer's website.

Fakespot scans the language used in every review, and also checks the profile of every reviewer, then uses a number of factors to decide whether a given review is likely to be fake or not.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's team of content reviewers focused mainly on violence and pornography, making it «incredibly easy» for Russian trolls to fly under the radar with their fake news, according to a former Facebook content monitor who worked at the social network for eight months in the lead - up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In addition to hiring reviewers, it's also going to require that advertisers «confirm the business or organization they represent,» potentially helping to weed out fake groups.