US EditionHere’s how many fake reviews Tripadvisor found on its website in 2024
- In 2024, Tripadvisor reviewed over 31 million submissions and identified about 8% as fake across its platform globally.
- This detection increase follows stronger policies against fake and incentivized reviews, with many paid reviews now traced mainly to Indonesia and Vietnam rather than India as in 2022.
- Tripadvisor categorizes fake reviews into boosting, vandalism, member fraud, and paid submissions, with boosting and member fraud making up 93% of detected fakes.
- The company uses 25 years of proprietary technology, combining automation, human moderators, and undercover investigators, with a system that prioritizes posting patterns over content.
- Although Tripadvisor cannot guarantee full eradication, it penalizes violators' rankings for a year and maintains that most AI-written reviews are not fake, continuing efforts to improve detection.
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