Killing the News With Spam and Slop Benefits Those Whose Desire is an Uninformed Population
Let's consider a possible observation or realisation: the current status quo - war on science and even on simple facts - is detrimental to Free software because Free software requires honesty; it's based on scientific processes and transparency, whereas proprietary junk is based on salesmanship (corruption, lies, bribes, false promises etc.) or, IOW, adoption of Free software depends indirectly on political activities/activism.
The political (or oligarchic) activities are nowadays extended to greater control of the media, both online and offline. Dictators do not want a properly-informed general public; people tend to learn from experience and lean against dictatorships*.
It's rather sad that the attack on news organisations - and on the Web by extension - has resulted in fewer sites that cover... well, anything. Take patents for instance. When did we last see any in-depth article about software patents or even patents in general? There used to be an abundance of these.
Consider the latest fake 'article' from LinuxSecurity.com: (even the headline gives away that it's LLM slop)
Of course the text is no better than the headline:
Hours apart (and hours ago) Gizmodo put "Linux" in a headline and presented this page as if it was an article:
This is what Google News entertains or gives when searching for "Linux" news, plus the following scam, akin to "online casino" stuff (or scams with a Web site):
"Linux" is in the headline, so Google News considers this to be Linux news.
Every week it seem to be getting worse. Free software coverage gets saturated or diluted, filled by garbage. Last week we mentioned Bruce Byfield's latest RMS-hostile nonsense with "Post-Stallman" in every headline; Someone replied to ask about it. From some hours ago: "Isn't Stallman still on the board of directors at FSF?" Yes, he is. But Byfield's goal is to implement the same coup in the FSF that he supported inside Novell, GNOME, etc. Despicable people [1, 2]. They call themselves "journalists" while shoehorning monopolists' interests. █
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* Unless the media misinforms the people. Today's mainstream/corporate media increasingly refuses to criticise oligarchs, not always because they own this media. Fully of partially.