Fakespot is gone: The fake review crisis just got worse
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Fakespot, the popular fake review detection tool that helped millions identify unreliable Amazon reviews with 90% accuracy, officially shut down on July 1, 2025. Founded in 2016 by Saoud Khalifah and later acquired by Mozilla in 2023, the service revealed that 43% of best-selling Amazon products had unreliable reviews. Mozilla
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