Report says PR firm has been paying Rotten Tomatoes critics for positive reviews
Report says PR firm has been paying Rotten Tomatoes critics for positive reviews
A new report says that a PR firm has been paying Rotten Tomatoes critics for positive reviews for over five years.
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I think suspicion started to settle in once movie trailers started advertising their RT scores.
6 0 ReplyIt’s a good thing I pay very little attention to online reviews. Amazon is another service whose reviews are for sale. Fuck all this corporate manipulation.
6 0 ReplyIt’s just shitty that this exists. I think a year of jail for every incident of manipulation would be awesome.
1 0 ReplyA year in jail for writing an overly positive movie review? Lmao
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I suspected as much recently. Add this to this list of enshitified things that needs replacement with a non-corporate version.
2 0 Reply*Rinse and repeat.
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Brb, off to go scrub this deep into the faces of everyone who told me this is just a silly conspiracy theory
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