Several years back, Facebook courted me to help them "combat abuse" in its many forms on their platform. But then I discovered that it was all bullshit, and they just wanted me to join them for their mundane ML/data engineering work such as doing video recommendations. They have a serious abuse problem but apparently choose to ignore it.

So it goes with Amazon. They have many issues with useless reviews, bad actors gaming the system, inaccurate descriptions, and so on. I get that it's a hard problem, but it's not like this is a mom & pop shop here; Amazon is a $1.5T company with incredible resources at its disposal. That they haven't made this a fringe, near negligible annoyance on their retail site seems to me a strong indicator that they either don't really care or they actually benefit from it in some way.