# Professor Russell Winer warns that some Amazon customer reviews are susceptible to manipulation and bias

1 Faculty News February 4, 2020 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from [Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-04/amazon-review-bribe) -- “'Amazon reviews are very susceptible to manipulation and bias,' said [Russell Winer](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/russell-winer), a marketing professor at New York University. 'This is particularly true for non-Amazon products sold by third parties.'”

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