{"id":389693,"date":"2010-03-04T11:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T16:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2010-03-04T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T16:16:43","slug":"yelp-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389693","title":{"rendered":"Yelp! under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2716\" title=\"yelp-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/yelp-logo.jpg\" alt=\"yelp-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\">Yelp!<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; the popular online message board where people post reviews of restaurants and other businesses &#8212; has been hit with a class-action lawsuit instigated by a pet hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital of Long Beach, California, asked to have defamatory and out-of-date reviews removed from the site. Instead, the plaintiffs claim, Yelp! account executives called them repeatedly and demanded payment in the form of bought advertising in exchange for removing the reviews.<\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit they allege that &#8220;business listings on Yelp.com, contrary to the website\u2019s &#8216;Real people. Real reviews.&#8217; mantra, are in fact biased in favor of businesses that buy Yelp advertising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/24\/yelp-class-action-lawsuit\/\"> read about it on TechCrunch<\/a>, which broke the story.<\/p>\n<p>Do you Yelp? Do you find it a reliable source of information?<\/p>\n<p><em>(Thanks to blog commenter John for alerting me to this.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelp! &#8212; the popular online message board where people post reviews of restaurants and other businesses &#8212; has been hit with a class-action lawsuit instigated by a pet hospital. Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital of Long Beach, California, asked to have defamatory and out-of-date reviews removed from the site. Instead, the plaintiffs claim, Yelp! account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}