Slopwatch: Linux FUD From Slopfarms, Blaming Linux for Microsoft Issues; Even WebProNews Has Become a Slopfarm (Googlebombing "Linux" With Slop Images and Fake/Plagiarised Text)
As we've demonstrated here many times in the past, Microsoft-controlled LLMs spew out a lot of anti-Linux texts, maybe by intention (manipulation in training or after that, or simply altering coefficients to mislead people). Everything is proprietary, so good luck figuring out what they censor.
The other day a security firm revealed CVE-2025-5054 (Apport) in Ubuntu and some similar issue in systemd. Suffice to say, as always, too many "security" features are ending up as as liability or security problems themselves (the "addons-as-security" mindset, not security by design). So some notorious slopfarms spewed out fake articles like this one:
Also fake:
From the sister slopfarm (of the above)
A Microsoft media mole (for decades already) manually wrote some FUD about it:
systemd is not Linux and the title is intentionally misleading. It's fear-mongering. That's just the usual from him, backed by slopfarms with many fake articles.
Here's a shallow new (and fake) 'article' from one of those slopfarms (same day, same fake author, Day):
Then there's this fake 'article' from a slopfarm:
It speaks of Microsoft's NPM. It's about Microsoft transmitting malware to computers, but nobody calls out Microsoft for its role here. They always blame "Python" and blame "Linux" or even "supply chain" (without naming Microsoft, which is what it is). Here's a real article - for a change - saying in the headline that "Backdoors in Python and NPM Packages Target Windows and Linux" (makes it sound like Python itself is the issue).
We've meanwhile caught another Serial Slopper and likely slopfarm. It's WebProNews. Just a day ago it published 3 "Linux" articles [1, 2, 3] that turn out to be based entirely or partially on LLM slop (several of us checked this to verify) and as recently as hours ago it participated in the above-mentioned FUD [1, 2] (including the above FUD and hype in the title, missing the point that systemd is not Linux, but sloppers gonna slop!).
So the above (all published in the same day or about 36 hours apart, at most) are basically fake articles with fake images (no exception!) promoted by Google News alongside the above slopfarms, too.
The Web is drowning in LLM slop and Google isn't keeping up or is simply participating in that.
They basically got greedy (once you slop you cannot stop). They started flooding the Web with low-quality text about "Linux" bearing obviously fake (slop) images and then pure LLM slop or mildly edited slop. As usual, this won't save the site but destroy what's left of it, as usual.
From now on we shall refer to WebProNews as a slopfarm. That's what WebProNews became. It produces fake articles with fake images.
Finally, as recently as hours ago we saw the following in a slopfarm boosted by Google News with the slop images added:
Yes, as usual, let's just blame "Linux" and "SSH" for bad or weak user passwords!
The Web is really getting bad; it's also overwhelmed by fake material or plagiarised material, wherein the plagiarism gets disguised/hidden by LLM sausage factories. █