{"id":36946,"date":"2021-06-25T18:08:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T01:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36946"},"modified":"2021-06-25T18:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T01:08:59","slug":"uk-watchdog-to-investigate-google-amazon-over-fake-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36946","title":{"rendered":"UK watchdog to investigate Google, Amazon over fake reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s competition watchdog is launching an investigation into fake reviews on Amazon and Google,\u00a0it said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will probe whether the two U.S.-based tech giants are breaking consumer laws by taking insufficient action to protect consumers from fake reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The CMA\u2019s latest probe follows an investigation launched last year into several platforms\u2019 internal systems and processes for identifying and dealing with fake reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog said the investigation has raised specific concerns about how Google and Amazon are detecting fake and misleading reviews or suspicious patterns of behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies defended their policies toward preventing fake reviews and committed to working with the CMA during its investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s competition watchdog is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36947,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36946\/revisions\/36947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}