Big Tech Mania: Google Regulates Thousands Of Negative Robinhood Reviews After GameStop Trade Freeze

By Paul Bois Jan 29, 2021 DailyWire.com

Big Tech struck back with a vengeance this week against the Redditers who pushed the GameStop stock surge, causing billions of dollars in losses for hedge fund short sellers.

Shortly after the stock trading app Robinhood froze all GameStop (GME) trading, Google removed close to 100,000 negative reviews from the Google Play Store that brought Robinhood down to a 1-star rating.

“Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store,” The Verge reported. “After some disgruntled Robinhood users organized campaigns to give the app a one-star review on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store — and succeeded in review-bombing it all the way down to a one-star rating — the company has now deleted enough reviews to bring it back up to nearly four stars.”

Google said it felt confident that the negative reviews, which came in direct response to Robinhood shutting its customers out, were in violation of the company’s policy. The temperature swelled to such sweltering levels on Thursday that a class-action lawsuit was filed against the trading app over alleged market manipulation.

“On or about January 27, 2021 Robinhood, in order to slow the growth of GME and deprived their customers of the ability to use their service, abruptly, purposefully, willfully, and knowingly pulled GME from their app,” the lawsuit said. “Meaning, retail investors could no longer buy or even search for GME on Robinhood’s app.”

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