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Fake Review Forensics

Guides and analysis on fake reviews, manipulation patterns, and reputation forensics. Updated when the data is.

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How Our Fake-Review Score Works (and What It Can't Tell You)

Our 0-100 manipulation score combines review-burst detection, reviewer-account age and activity, duplicate-text matching, and rating-text consistency into a single number. Here's what goes into it, and the real limits of what any automated score can prove.

Jul 21, 2026 · 6 min