As wonderful as the internet can be, I feel like it lies to us every day. Fake reviews—seemingly legitimate assessments created by a seller or someone paid by them—are becoming harder to spot. The ...

A new study claims 3 percent of Amazon customer reviews it analyzed were AI-generated. Online shoppers put a lot of weight on product reviews. A study by Northwestern University found that shoppers ...

Consumer Reports says 1.92 billion people have shopped online so far this year. Most of these customers are turning to online product reviews to make a final decision on whether to buy or pass, but ...

Fake Amazon and eBay sites are spiking ahead of Black Friday, using real logos, photos, and “too good to be true” prices to fool shoppers Before you buy, tap the full URL, sanity-check prices, avoid ...

I miss the days of the early web when most things online felt legit—back before the proliferation of bots and generative AI. The modern web has drastically changed, and it feels like “fake” content ...

In an era where 92% of consumers read reviews before buying, that little star rating can make or break a purchase. But experts say 30% of reviews may be fake. How can you tell what’s real? From ...

A photo taken by Mercy Chefs showing the destruction in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa made landfall. Read full article: Relief organization brings hope to hurricane-ravaged Jamaica as people wander ...

As millions prepare to snag the best deals during Amazon Prime Day, cybercriminals are preparing too, just not in the way you'd hope. Security researchers have uncovered more than 120,000 fake Amazon ...

It doesn’t have to be the holidays for Amazon to receive a lot of attention from product buyers, but business on the nation’s largest online retailer is especially brisk this time of year. While the ...

Amazon is renowned for its nearly infinite selection of goods, but the scale of its operations means that faulty products may ...

In 2021, it was discovered that over 200,000 people were involved in a fake reviews scheme with third-party Amazon vendors. Worse yet, AI has made it more difficult to tell real people from robots.