Tue. 07/19 – Amazon Sues Facebook (Group Admins)

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Amazon is stepping up its war against bogus product reviews. Netflix is testing more crackdowns on password sharing. Slack is raising prices. ESPN+ is raising prices. But one streaming service is actually LOWERING prices? And mark your calendars, cause the Fall product launch season is upon us. Sponsors: Storyblok.com/ridehome Links: Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews (TechCrunch) Netflix Tests Another Way to Charge for Password Sharing (Bloomberg) Apple Sued Over Apple Pay, Accused of Antitrust Violations (Bloomberg) Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works (TechCrunch) ESPN+ Monthly Subscription to Rise $3 as Disney Strives for Streaming Profits (Variety) Crunchyroll is lowering monthly subscription fees in almost 100 regions (Engadget) Samsung confirms August 10th Unpacked event date with ‘cryptic’ puzzle (The Verge) WD begins shipping 22TB Red Pro, Purple Pro and Gold HDDs (Club386) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, July 19th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.4	Today Amazon is stepping up its war against bogus product reviews.
0:13.0	Netflix is testing more crackdowns on password sharing.
0:15.8	Slack is raising prices.
0:17.2	E-SPM plus is raising prices, but one streaming service is actually lowering prices and mark your calendars because the fall
0:24.6	product launch season is upon us.
0:27.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the administrators of more than 10,000
0:36.8	Facebook groups that offer cash or goods to people willing to post bogus
0:42.0	product reviews on Amazon, quoting Tech Crunch.
0:46.2	The global groups serve to recruit would be fake reviewers and operated in Amazon's online
0:51.6	storefronts in the U.S.
0:52.6	The UK, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, and Italy.
0:55.9	If 10,000 Facebook groups sounds like a lot,
0:58.8	it's apparently the sum total of groups
1:00.9	Amazon has reported to Facebook since 2020. The company notes that
1:05.1	past legal action it's taken has been effective and quote shut down multiple
1:09.3	major review brokers and yet here we are. They've been suing people for this stuff since all the way
1:14.0	back in 2015. The company named one group, Amazon Product Review, which boasted more than
1:20.0	40,000 members until Facebook removed it earlier in 2022.
1:24.0	That one evaded detection through the time-honored AI eluding strategy of
1:28.4	swapping a few letters around in phrases that would get it busted.
1:31.8	Amazon says that it will leverage the discovery process to quote,
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