Why Every Restaurant Has 4.6 Stars

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · May 23, 2026 · 28m

You open Google Maps, see a place with 4.6 stars and 300 reviews, show up, and the hummus is just fine. What's going on? This episode unpacks the four mechanisms that inflate online restaurant ratings — from Google's shadow-banning of negative reviews to Israel's new defamation law that presumes reviewers are guilty. We also explore a better model: recommendation-based systems that use binary signals and behavioral data instead of broken star scales. Episode 3017 — myweirdprompts.com/n/3017 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/566465)