E-commerce platforms worldwide have faced the enduring challenge of moderating fake reviews over the past decade. Hence, in this paper, we investigate the platforms’ economic incentives to remove fake reviews, which is an important but unanswered question. Using a game-theoretic model, we...

Recently, a controversial new privacy policy on the mobile app platform, which requires app developers to display privacy labels and request data-tracking permissions from users, has sparked a heated discussion among practitioners in digital advertising. In this paper, we build a game-theoretic...

Opinion spammers exploit consumer trust by posting false or deceptive reviews that may have a negative impact on both consumers and businesses. These dishonest posts are difficult to detect because of complex interactions between several user characteristics such as review velocity, volume, and...

Content on non-profit user-generated content (UGC) platforms, such as Wikipedia, is generally created and maintained as open-collaboration projects by UGC communities who are also users of these platforms. Furthermore, the financial sustainability of these platforms depends on funding from...