Google just deleted over 100k negative reviews of RobinhoodApp

Seeing as Robinhood did do something that many of it's users may consider negative-review worthy, after all there's a huge class-action lawsuit gathering steam against it right now. It's not like these were bots that brigaded the app for no reason.

Granted, I wouldn't say what Google is doing is illegal. I think it's good to keep this in mind to reinforce the "reviews are fake" rule of thumb that one should apply to things on the appstore in general. You can be certain less obvious manipulation of these kind happen on a daily basis based on who is giving google ad money.

I'd honestly not be surprised if this action was automatic, simply because Robinhood is a very large ad words customers, and the default policy of the algorithm is to mark negative reviews as "fake" for large customers. Which makes it worst, not better, mind you.