How can we trust in reviewers on Youtube & WordPress which do not declare their conflict of interest – are not many of those paid promotional reviewers?

Last Updated on December 7, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

We can see countless YouTube demos, product reviewers and testers on YouTube and WordPress. But after our experience with the Pinephone and Libreoffice we turn into the negative about those. There where testers which tested LibreOffice on the Phonephone and Fedora and all kind of applications.

• But after all we had to test the Pinephone by ourselves and list the issues.
• We had to test LibreOfffice on the Phonephone by ourselves and list the issue.
• We had to test Abiword on the Pinephone and list the issues.
• We had to test Gnumeric by oursleves an list the issues.
• We had to test the Libreoffice forum by ourselves and list the issues.
• Are not many of the supporters in the Pine64 forum product sellers in one way or the other?
• Do ordinary users behave as these do?

Did reviewers receive products for free to do their review or test on YouTube and WordPress which therefore have a confict of interest? We have not.

Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

We made negative experience with YouTube videos and WordPress review. Are we manipulated there? Without declaring a conflict of interest or without declaring that which of these contributions where paid promotianal contributions how can we trust in these contributions and in these media?