This is the article Doctors and dentists tell patients, "all your review are belong to us" sited as background to this followup material.
Medical Justice caught impersonating happy patients on Yelp, RateMDs
by Timothy B. Lee | Published May 27, 2011 9:40 AM
Recently we reported on Medical Justice and its efforts to help its clients squelch negative patient reviews (see link above). Now evidence has emerged that MJ has also been posting positive reviews on behalf of its clients on multiple review sites.
The first to notice the trend was John Swapceinski of RateMDs.com. Between November 2010 and March 2011, six IP addresses registered to Medical Justice collectively submitted 86 ratings to his site. They reviewed a total of 38 doctors in Florida, New Jersey, California, North Carolina, Hawaii, Texas, Illinois, and seven other states. Several of them appear to be known MJ clients. At our suggestion, Yelp reviewed its logs and found that those same six IP addresses had also been responsible for numerous favorable doctor reviews on Yelp.
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by Timothy B. Lee | Published May 27, 2011 9:40 AM
Recently we reported on Medical Justice and its efforts to help its clients squelch negative patient reviews (see link above). Now evidence has emerged that MJ has also been posting positive reviews on behalf of its clients on multiple review sites.
The first to notice the trend was John Swapceinski of RateMDs.com. Between November 2010 and March 2011, six IP addresses registered to Medical Justice collectively submitted 86 ratings to his site. They reviewed a total of 38 doctors in Florida, New Jersey, California, North Carolina, Hawaii, Texas, Illinois, and seven other states. Several of them appear to be known MJ clients. At our suggestion, Yelp reviewed its logs and found that those same six IP addresses had also been responsible for numerous favorable doctor reviews on Yelp.
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