Teaching activity
Fake Reviews
Sarah Best
6th February 2019
Many students will have heard of 'fake news' but the following video explores the lengths one person will go to obtain a high listing for their restaurant on the review site TripAdvisor.
But there is a twist... this restaurant was fake.
Oobah Butler set up a fake restaurant in a shed and through the use of fake reviews managed to get his restaurant to the number one spot in London.
A fascinating insight into the use of social media and how it can be so easily used to deceive.
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