Fake online reviews mean cash-for-comment is rife

By Asher Moses
Updated September 30 2012 - 11:18pm, first published September 28 2012 - 10:19am
Yelp reviews can mean the difference between a full and empty restaurant, but can you trust them?
Yelp reviews can mean the difference between a full and empty restaurant, but can you trust them?

Online reviews — of apps, books, films, hotels and restaurants — increasingly drive consumer decisions, but with as many as a third of them fake, can people take what they read at face value?

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