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How exactly does a moneyed interest subvert a review aggregator?

Sites that feature product reviews inevitably get paid by product companies to filter unfavorable reviews and also surface paying products.

Yeah, that's bad, but how does that subvert an honest site that doesn't take payments or free products?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433451

The whole point of a review aggregator is to find and spotlight the credible reviewers.

How about the issue of astroturfing or botting?

Honest sites always succumb. That's why this question is being asked in the first place.

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