Yelp Is Pushing a Law to Shield Its Reviewers From Defamation Suits
Mother Jones
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Matthew White was getting nervous. It was the fall of 2013, and White believed he was stuck with a botched hardwood-floor job. The stairs weren’t rebuilt to code, multiple doors would no longer fully open, boot prints were embedded in the varnish—the list went on. Convinced that many problems would never be fixed to his satisfaction, White logged into Yelp and gave his Denver-area contractor, Footprints Floors, the first of two scathing reviews. “Absolutely horrible experience,” he wrote. “The quality of the work is absolutely deplorable. Be warned!”
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Yelp Is Pushing a Law to Shield Its Reviewers From Defamation Suits
