Google deletes millions of negative TikTok reviews
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> The video-sharing platform was inundated with one-star reviews after an Indian creator posted a spoof video of an acid attack.
> But Google intervened after it determined that critics had set up fake accounts to amplify their protests.
> After TikTok became embroiled in the backlash, Google removed more than 5 million of its recent one-star reviews but left many others active.
> "When we learn of incidents of spam abuse, we review and take corrective action to remove inappropriate ratings and comments," he added.
> Tiktok is a bad app. I have become nervous, never sleep on the video. Hi, how hard can I work together but never even 100 out of 50, I am installing Tiktok if you have the answer to this thing. Fix as soon as possible. We are not crazy who make videos. I have made 600 videos on this, but till today, not a single viral video has been made or their videos are also going viral. I'm not installing Tic Tok so I don't
This is clearly not a human-written review -- it jumps between ideas at random and breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was almost certainly generated based on segments of other negative reviews.
Nor is the number of votes on the review normal. It's remarkable for a single recent review, even on a popular app like TikTok, to have even one thousand thumbs-ups. (Compare the reviews on the Facebook app, for instance.) 25,000 is absurd.
It could be a real review. I've seen far worse text from prominent engineers.