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How Should We Combat Misinformation? With More Misinformation?

There’s lies, damn lies and reviews

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Last night I was client hunting on Upwork. During my search, I stumbled across a strange job opening.

The job title read “Write Negative Reviews on Google”.

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This immediately caught my eye.

Why would someone want to pay for negative reviews? I’m familiar with people paying freelancers for positive reviews on their products and services, but I had never heard of anyone asking for negative reviews.

Perhaps a saboteur trying to kill a competitor’s business?

No.

Political misinformation, in the name of stopping misinformation.

What a bloody mess.

The job description explains that they will pay $5 for people to leave five negative reviews for five businesses (one for each).

The rationale of this person is to cancel a country singer named Megan Patrick because of her support for the Freedom Convoy (truck protesters against vaccine mandates). They will do this…