This time, Google says it will not intervene.
Second wave
Once again, the now infamous stock trading app Robinhood finds itself with a totally bad rating on the Google Play Store.
And this time, Google will not save you, said a company spokesman The Verge. Robinhood has become deeply unpopular in recent times, especially after he restricted users from buying shares in companies like GameStop and AMC in response to the Wall Street Bets fiasco. Now, negative reviews are coming in for all sorts of problems, and the app’s reputation seems hopelessly sunk.
A star
So far, the almost comical majority of reviews on the Google Play Store rate Robinhood with one out of five stars, raising him to an average rating of just 1.1 / 5.
This already happened last week in the wake of Robinhood’s Wall Street Bets restrictions. At that time, Google intervened and removed 100,000 negative comments, considering them a coordinated effort to lower the app’s rating and therefore against company policy.
Without hands
This time, however, Google will be left out.
“Google Play’s app analytics systems are designed to provide a genuine and reliable view of an app’s user experience, and we take action on any non-authentic or coordinated activity with the aim of artificially increasing or decreasing an overall score for a application, ”said a Google spokesman The Verge. “To be clear, this is not done to protect an application from negative analysis, but to help protect application developers from things like coordinated analysis bombardments and to protect our systems from being artificially manipulated.”
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