Content actions
Content verification and enforcement
Booking.com aims to reflect the most up-to-date reviews from our travellers. That’s why we have a fast turnaround on our content moderation.
The process of checking submitted reviews is as follows:
The first round of checks is performed by our machine learning algorithms – these could be accommodation reviews and photos shared by guests, replies written by partners, or other types of content. From the moment we receive a piece of content, it takes the algorithm only seconds to approve the content. That’s why the large majority of content is approved by our algorithms and is then published on Booking.com.
Content that wasn’t approved by the algorithms is routed to our team of moderators – when our algorithms identify potentially guideline-violating content, they send the content to our moderators for further review. We aim to review content within five business days and decide within that timeframe if it’s suitable to be published on Booking.com.
After a review was published, it can still be removed at a later date – this can happen because machine learning algorithms are performing ongoing checks every day.
Once approved, content is accessible via our platform and our apps. If our moderators deem that content violates one of our policies (including our content standards and guidelines) it won’t be published. Once a piece of content is removed, the decision can be appealed or a new version of the content can be submitted to us.
