{"id":19011,"date":"2026-01-02T21:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2026\/01\/02\/spot-the-bot-spot-the-slop\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:06:50","slug":"spot-the-bot-spot-the-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2026\/01\/02\/spot-the-bot-spot-the-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot the Bot, Spot the Slop."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m seeing more and more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/slop\">Slop<\/a> on Amazon.com. This particular one product has three reviews and two of them are definitely astroturfed or posted by bots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_9267-472x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_9267-472x1024.jpg 472w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_9267-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_9267-768x1668.jpg 768w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_9267-707x1536.jpg 707w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_9267.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Astroturfing for product at Amazon.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the not so normal norm now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. Spot the Polydactyl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m seeing more and more Slop on Amazon.com. This particular one product has three reviews and two of them are definitely astroturfed or posted by bots. This is the not so normal norm now. P.S. Spot the Polydactyl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Spot the Bot, Spot the Slop.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[3717,3320,3718,936],"class_list":["post-19011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3717","tag-january","tag-slop","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_9266.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-4WD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19013,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011\/revisions\/19013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}