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aggregating tech product ratings on Amazon and Steam
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REVIEW SKEPTIC
Created by researchers at Cornell University, Review
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learning to identify fake hotel reviews. This is a simple
online tool that gives you a quick true or false indicator
when you pop a URL into the website. Review Skeptic
claims it has achieved 90 percent accuracy.
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is a simple
online tool that
gives you a
true or false
indicator when
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