Today, we’re announcing a new consumer alert to stand against racism. In the last few months, we’ve seen that there is a clear need to warn consumers about businesses associated with egregious, racially-charged actions to help people make more informed spending decisions.
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Communities have always turned to Yelp in reaction to current events, and our User Operations team already places alerts on business pages when we notice an unusual uptick in reviews that are based on what someone may have seen in the news, rather than on a first-hand experience.
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Now, when a business gains attention for reports of racist conduct, Yelp will place a new Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert on their Yelp page to inform users, along with a link to a news article where they can learn more.http://bit.ly/yelpconsumeralert …
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This is very dangerous
Sadly there are many people that use this feature with malicious intent. You may inadvertently cause much harm to many small business.
Social media & rating apps such as yours have now become the judge & jury of our society. Not good.
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