Rating Manipulation
I've noticed a couple really shady things that seem to indicate rating manipulation on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB.
This movie obviously has much less than a 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but Disney must have coerced them to cap the score at 50%. It's been at 50% for the last week even though 90% of the reviews have been extremely bad the whole time, and yet it doesn't go below 50%.
Furthermore, they don't let you go back more than about 50 pages even though there are 1800 pages. If you could see all the reviews, you could do your own math and see that it's below 50%
On IMDB, they also stopped letting you sort reviews chronologically, and now it's forced into "most helpful" sort order. And you can't go page by page.
It's odd that this is all happening during the release of Star Wars. It reminds me of how NPR also got rid of their forums exactly when everyone was trashing Hillary Clinton during her battle with Bernie Sanders.
This shutting down of public discussion when things don't go the way of the rich and powerful is really dangerous and saddening.