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Bad Online Reviews or Blackmail? BBC Radio 4 – ‘You & Yours’
Bad Online Reviews or Blackmail? Companies are complaining that review websites are being used to blackmail them… Featuring KwikChex. Click here to listen (Chapter 2)
TripAdvisor: hotel owners fear growing ‘blackmail’ threats from guests online
Credits: The Telegraph – Travel "Guests are attempting to blackmail hotels and businesses into paying hundreds of pounds by threatening to write bad reviews on the online site TripAdvisor, it has been reported. " "TripAdvisor carries more the reviews which it claims are honest, reliable and written by “real trave