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Better Business Bureau 20/20 Investigation
An ABC 20/20 investigation into whether the Better Business Bureau sells its ratings. It looks at BBB finances, executive pay and how grades relate to paid accreditation.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it as evidence that the BBB is a pay-to-play shakedown whenever BBB ratings or accreditation come up.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- jd415
- Topic
- better business bureau
- Format
- news
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2014
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
For anyone else interested in this topic (or doubtful about the claim) 20/20 did an cover story on this: [VIDEO]
rkalla on Hacker News · 2011-08
In My experience with a 'negative review' scammer.Hey, that's the BBB we are talking about here. [VIDEO] Watch the whole video if you haven't seen it before.
aestra on Hacker News · 2014-01
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Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.