When News Sites Become Shopping Catalogues Disguised as 'Reviews' or 'Articles'
The latest:
A PRODUCTS catalogue disguised as "news". 4 out of 4 of his latest "articles" are just shopping spam.
Only yesterday: Fantastic Journalism by Brian Fagioli (spoiler: sarcasm)
Then folks wonder why we encourage the use of Gemini Protocol and gradual phase-out of what's left of the Web (increasingly a corporate spamfarm, even Wikipedia is becoming just that because of the money).
Sometimes Fagioli uses HEY HI (AI, LLMs actually) to make 'articles' about HEY HI. █
Also see: BetaNews Has Become a SPAM/Slop Factory, Brian Fagioli Publishes Fake 'Articles' | It's Morbid to Talk About Living People as If They're Dead | BetaNews, Inc. Became a Spam Operation/Web Site, LLM Spew (Slop) for SEO Disguised as "Articles" | BetaNews is Beta-Testing the Site as LLM Slop With Microsoft Propaganda Thrown In | Even the Managing Editor of BetaNews is Doing Slop and Spam | At BetaNews, "Most Commented Story" Is Not a Story But LLM Slop! (Readers Talking to Bots) | BetaNews is Run and Written by Bots That Make Clickbait | BetaNews, Desperate for Clicks, is Pushing Donald Trump Spam Created by LLMs (Slop)