Google Works To Restore Robinhood's Reputation As Angry Reviewers Bombard Play Store

Alphabet Inc GOOGL GOOG subsidiary Google is removing thousands of negative reviews left on the Robinhood trading app at its Play Store, the Verge reported Thursday.

What Happened: The Robinhood app was blasted with nearly 100,000 negative reviews on Thursday. The total number of reviewers stood at over 274,000 at the time. The app’s rating fell down to one star due to the review bombing, while the app previously enjoyed a four-star rating, 9to5Google reported.

The rating has since gone back up to four stars after enough reviews were deleted by Google. As of press time, the App was rated by 177,501 reviewers.

Robinhood on Thursday prevented its users from entering new positions in the shares of GameStop Corp GME, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc AMC, and others.

Why It Matters: Participants in the Reddit forum that have fed the short squeeze frenzy of late in the shares of GameStop Corp, AMC, Blackberry Ltd BB, Nokia Oyj NOK, and others called for tanking the app’s ratings at Apple Inc’s AAPL  App Store and Google Play, according to a post on r/WallStreetBets.

Do your part, tank Robinhood’s rating in the App / Google play Store. They deserve it. from r/wallstreetbets

Google policies prohibit reviews that are misleading or are posted with the intention of manipulating the rating. 

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On the Apple App Store, Robinhood still has a 4.7-star rating. 9to5 Google reported that Apple potentially blocked the review bombs from affecting the overall score.

Price Action: On Thursday, Alphabet Class A shares closed nearly 1.9% higher at $1,853.20, and Class C shares closed almost 1.8% higher at $1,863.11. In after-hours trading, the Class A shares fell by 0.17% and Class C shares by 0.39% respectively.

Photo: Courtesy of Robinhood