Maybe it’s easier now since someone on the other side of the planet can trivially post fake reviews and extort someone without any consequence since they’re in a different jurisdiction. But we should equally be suspicious of positive reviews. I have used contractors that had great online reviews only to be shocked at the poor quality of their work and the dishonest ways in which they handled my complaints.
My feeling - people need to shun their digital overlords like Google and rely on word of mouth again. At the same time, we need new laws to compel the largest tech platforms to do the right thing. They won’t if it is left to them.
You have any sources for this?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15078883/Sharia-pat...
The people doing this are posting videos of them harassing store owners on TikTok, to encourage others who follow them to do the same. In some cases they’re targeting Muslim-owned stores for not being Islamic enough, and in other cases they’re just targeting stores that are in “their neighborhoods”. Either way, they are trying to make it so that their business drops so that they’re forced to comply or so they give up and sell (to an Islamic buyer for cheap).
Note that this is part of a larger playbook of creating separate Islamic societies that has been see in other countries previously (like England, India, etc).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
> archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion
So if you need, here’s a TOR version:
http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcb...
Or try:
https://archive.is/p8z10
You can also use this unlocked link to access the article on the NY Times’ site:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/technology/fake-reviews-s...