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Honestly, you can say same thing about any page, app that let users write reviews. There will always be trolls, review bombs, corporate buying reviews etc. I have bigger problems with goodreads as app itself.
I think it’s also impossible to know who actually did read a book and who didn’t. Hard to keep something like this both fair and open without strict moderation, and almost nobody wants to do that for free.
It was a different article but I remember a Goodreads librarian commenting that they were basically working for Amazon for free.