Five-star reviews for Facebook’s Portal smart display were found to be written by Facebook employees.
There’s a lot of love for Facebook’s new Portal smart display on Amazon – from Facebook’s own employees, at least.
The Portal and Portal+ are Facebook’s attempt to enter the smart home market, with a screen-based smart display to offer video chat services. But it seems some of the more glowing praise found online is from Facebook employees – which they’re not really meant to be doing. Portal and Portal+
New York Times columnist @kevinroose posted the revelation on Twitter, showing how a number of five-star reviews on the Portal’s Amazon product page were signed off by the names of Facebook employees – an accusation confirmed by Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth.
