{"id":7156,"date":"2018-09-19T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2018-09-19T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:05:32","slug":"tripadvisor-has-credibility-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/09\/19\/tripadvisor-has-credibility-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"TripAdvisor has credibility problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with user generated content web sites -a.k.a. social media &#8211; is that much of the content is fake, incorrect or even fraudulent.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TripAdvisor, the 500-pound gorilla of travel review websites, has faced a growing problem with the credibility of many of its postings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/chris-mcginnis\/article\/TripAdvisor-moves-beyond-user-reviews-to-bolster-13239038.php\">TripAdvisor moves beyond user reviews to bolster its credibility &#8211; SFGate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>TripAdvisor has had a lot of problems, previously noted on <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?s=trip+advisor\">this blog<\/a>. These include TripAdvisor, in the past, censoring bad reviews and businesses posting bad reviews of their competitors. After a while, its just like Amazon reviews, where many reviews are fake. Not sure their new strategy will make much difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with user generated content web sites -a.k.a. social media &#8211; is that much of the content is fake, incorrect or even fraudulent. TripAdvisor has a history of censoring bad reviews while letting businesses write fake bad reviews of their competitors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}