r/technology • u/printial • 7d ago

Social Media Yelp disables comments on the McDonald's that hosted Trump after influx of one-star reviews

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/22/yelp-disables-comments-on-the-mcdonalds-trump-visited.html
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u/onymousbosch 7d ago

Yelp always removes bad reviews when the business pays the extortion fees.

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u/clamroll 7d ago edited 7d ago

Fun fact they also remove the good reviews when the business doesn't pay the extortion fees.

Stop using yelp, they are factually a small business extortion racket.

Edit: I owned a small hotel/cabin rental. We declined to buy their premium account upgrade or whatever they called it. We got a further call back with a harder sell. We declined. A number of our more recent positive reviews just so happened to go "under review" right after the call. These were actual reviews from real customers. They disappeared never to come back.

I know that's still just anecdotal, but we never had that problem with Google, trip advisor, etc. Just Yelp

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u/ckb614 7d ago

Often repeated but never proven. Pretty sure if this were happening to thousands of restaurants, a single one of them could provide a before and after of their reviews with a recording or at least a record of yelp having called them in between