Wuhan students tried to boot remote learning app from the App Store by leaving bad reviews

Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto via Getty Images In Wuhan, China, where the novel coronavirus outbreak began, schools are closed, so kids have had to use an Alibaba-owned corporate app called DingTalk to attend classes remotely. (In January, DingTalk got a slew of new education features.) The only problem: a rumor had been circulating that apps with one-star ratings would be booted from the App Store. And according to a dispatch from the London Review of Books, a bunch of Chinese kids did exactly what you’d expect kids to do: they review-bombed DingTalk. good morning to all the kids under quarantine in wuhan who defeated the app assigning them homework by spamming it with 1-star reviews until it got removed from the app store https://t.co/gDxjivabte— ℝ (@zenalbatross) M... Continue reading…