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Caught a whole batch of fake reviews for a local hardware store on Google Maps

I was looking for a new drill press last week and saw this store in Springfield had 50 five-star reviews posted in the last two days, all with the same weird, flowery language. I reported the whole block to Google and flagged them as likely AI, but they're still up. How do you get a real person at these platforms to actually look at this stuff?
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stellap49
stellap498d ago
Ugh, my buddy tried reporting fake hotel reviews for months.
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joseph_johnson
Yeah, good luck with that. The whole system is rigged. They make it nearly impossible to actually get a fake review taken down, but let any idiot post whatever they want. Your buddy probably got more done by yelling at a brick wall.
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paulhernandez
Try reporting them as paid promotions instead.
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