The Federal Trade Commission announced a groundbreaking lawsuit Tuesday against a company it accuses of paying for fake Amazon reviews. But the agency may have a lot more work to do if it wants to end ...

Ever wonder whether those glowing five-star reviews you see for products sold online are real? It’s hard to know for sure. In fact, research by Fakespot, a website that analyzes online product reviews ...

Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site’s new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to ...

A wave of regulation and industry action has placed the flourishing fake review business on notice. But experts say the problem may be insurmountable. By Stuart A. Thompson Stuart Thompson covers the ...

We use them all the time — Yelp, Tripadvisor, the BBB — websites that post reviews by customers, clients and patients of all sorts of companies and health care providers. But can we trust these ...