... looked perfect on paper and weren't. Five-star, thousands of reviews, "verified purchase" everywhere. The kind of listing you don't think twice about. Here's what building this taught me. The tools that used to catch this, Fakespot and ReviewMeta, are both dead now. The ones still around give you a score or a grade and stop there. None of them answer the actual question a shopper has, which isn't "what's the score"; it's "should ...