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Tripadvisor nixed two million reviews last year
Travel platform Tripadvisor, published its 2021 Review Transparency Report, revealing in detail the volume of review contributions to the platform in 2020, and the impact of Covid-19 on user-generated travel guidance.
According to the report, it rejected or removed over two million reviews that did not comply with the platform’s community standards.
In total, 3.6% of all review submissions last year were identified as fake, with the majority being rejected before they were posted to the Tripadvisor site.
It introduced new community standards designed to prevent the spread of Covid-19 misinformation and protect businesses that have been keeping customers safe.
As a result, Tripadvisor removed nearly 50,000 reviews that did not adhere to the platform’s Covid-19 posting guidelines.
"As we continue the work to earn the trust travellers place in our business, we take the enforcement of our community standards incredibly seriously as we use the best in technology and human moderation practices to fight fraud," said Becky Foley, head of Trust and Safety at Tripadvisor.
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