Slopwatch: BetaNews is Now a Slopfarm (Like Linuxsecurity) and Google News is Overwhelmed by Slopfarms

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 18, 2025

The Web is bad. It seems to be getting out of hand. BetaNews seems to be almost 100 percent slop, i.e. it is a slopfarm.

Consider a short while ago. Camila Nogueira (if that's a real person all) is only ever producing LLM slop and the latest is no exception, so BetaNews is now just another slopfarm, we think:

LLM slop, like every other 'article' since all staff (real people) got fired:

Time will tell if this is the "new normal".

Brittany Day is also at it as usual, being the Serial Slopper of Linuxsecurity (it is basically a rogue domain):

Fake 'articles'.

Then there's this computer-generated FUD:

Also in the sister slopfarm:

Notice that not only the text but also all the images are slop.

Same here today:

And the sister slopfarm:

Google News is absolutely flooded today, mostly by those two slopfarms, a couple of rogue domains that spew out bad publicity for Linux in the form of LLM slop:

So this is the Web basically. Google News with its automated curation for 'quality' is a joke. █