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How a backyard shed became London's top restaurant

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In a brilliant prank, a writer once managed to make a nonexistent shed in his backyard the top-rated restaurant in London. By flooding the platform with highly detailed, totally fabricated praise, he exposed that crowdsourced trust systems can be entirely dismantled with a little bit of creative fiction.

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