Fake online reviews are distorting competition and endangering consumers, research finds
CAMP Fellow Emily Osborne speaks with The Globe and Mail about how fake online reviews distort competition, undermine consumer trust and expose people to potentially harmful products and services.
Five Stars Only: The Underground Market for Fake Reviews Online
Fake reviews mislead consumers and put honest businesses at a disadvantage. In Five Stars Only, Emily Osborne examines the underground market for fake Amazon and Google reviews, the platforms that enable it, and how Canada can respond.
Amazon cloud outage downed sites for millions of users, exposing risks of overdependence
A few days after Amazon's cloud services company AWS had an outage that for millions of users plunged popular websites and apps into the dark, questions still linger about why we're so reliant on a handful of companies in the first place — and why it might be hard to prevent another outage.
Tech giants control of online advertising puts national security at risk: report
Google, Meta and Amazon control more than 90 per cent of the market meant to sell online advertising in Canada, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, a think tank devoted to addressing concentrations of power.
Report | Electric Eyes: Advertising Monopolies and Canada’s National Security
In a new report, CAMP lays out the link between the monopolization of online advertising and threats to Canada's national security.
Competition Bureau advances its investigation into Amazon’s pricing policy
Canada's Competition Bureau is taking further steps in its investigation into Amazon to determine if the e-commerce giant's rules for sellers on the platform are an abuse of dominance under the federal Competition Act, the agency said on Tuesday