After Charges of Fake Reviews and Extortion, Are TripAdvisor and Yelp Still Credible?
The more skeptical among us would have you believe that online review sites are all fake news. TripAdvisor is full of good reviews businesses pay for. Yelp is an online mafia of extortionists. In an era when anybody can pretty much say anything online and people will believe it, it’s hard to know how much of what we see on online review sites is true. Equally as difficult is determining how many allegations of review fraud are also true. Are review sites completely discredited? Or are they still good, honest, open forums that we can use to make important decisions like where to eat brunch?