Slopwatch: Plagiarism, Fake Articles, and FUD About Linux

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 01, 2025

Tonight's Slopwatch starts with "Fagioli, whose slopfarm is about slop, not Linux. Has he given up yet? Maybe not yet. Slop about slop is a slippery slope (or slop)," as we put it this morning.

Seeing that Marius and others write about Leap 16, Brian Fagioli threw some plagiarism tools at the 'task':

LinuxSecurity has also produced some LLM slop:

And of course not a day goes by without Google News feeding FUD from slopfarms:

You search Google News for "linux" and this is what you get: two connected slopfarms with fake articles and slop images. They tell you Linux is bad, based on LLMs likely controlled by Microsoft. █

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