Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered - IGN
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A new report details how a PR firm paid off critics to post positive reviews of 2018 drama Ophelia on Rotten Tomatoes, prompting scrutiny over the reviews aggregator.

Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm’s Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered::A new report details how a PR firm paid off critics to post positive reviews of 2018 drama Ophelia on Rotten Tomatoes, prompting scrutiny over the reviews aggregator.

  • baruchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Title is misleading. Why Rotten Tomatoes? The bribes went to critics not to the site which is just a critics aggregator.

  • Fantomas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    1 year ago

    I mean this was so obvious. Pay for positive critic reviews and call any user reviews that weren’t favourable names.

    • Zrybew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      1 year ago

      Bad Boys For Life on 90 score convinced me the site was a fraud. That Shit is unwatchable.

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using IMDB for the past year or so. Anyone know if they pay for reviews too?

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        How does something like, say, Wikipedia avoid this issue? Is it because Wikipedia focuses on factuality whereas critic reviews are inherently qualitative/subjective?

        • Ascyron@lemmy.oneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Honestly, Wikipedia doesn’t avoid this. People constantly game the rules to remove or change content that doesn’t suit them. I recall an instance where employees of a company were busted editing that company’s page, they were caught because there were so many different editors all from the same corporate IP. And that’s just the low hanging fruit that makes the news - I would wager there’s 10 instances that never get noticed for each one that people spot.

          • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t see why they can’t add that to its page. Document the corporate ips as part of a section on attempts to self-editorialize their wiki articles.

            Edit: add them to a Wikiverse-wide digital wall of shame to immortalize their deceptive efforts

  • alienanimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Rotten Tomatoes will also stop all new reviews if a movie is bombing. They definitely manipulate their ratings.

    Edit Two Rotten Tomatoes employees downvoted this comment.