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How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant
VICE
VICE's Oobah Butler spends eight months using fake reviews to push a nonexistent restaurant, The Shed at Dulwich, to number one on TripAdvisor in London. The short documentary shows how easily review systems can be gamed.
Cited as the canonical example of fake reviews and gamed rating platforms.
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