Slopwatch: Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com), Slashdot, Google News, and More
In Slopwatch this afternoon we start with an obvious, longstanding slopfarm. It used to be published by Madame Day, then someone else along with Day, then that someone alone, now just a pseudonym:
Just more garbage. This week they started adding to their RSS feed promotional pages from the parent company (Guardian Digital). It looks like they're about to throw in the towel (on this failed LLM experiment).
Apropos LLM experiments, UbuntuPIT seems to be trying harder these days to make better articles (knowing it got caught and called out for slop) and linuxconfig.org likewise. It's good to see sites recognising LLM mistakes.
Slashdot is now linking to a slopfarm again (it is then being used to legitimise the fake site) and also, as noted this morning, Google News keeps feeding obvious slopfarms that keep pounding with "Linux Rootkits" in headlines. We see the same FUD in the headline of 3 interconnected slopfarms, even if the issue is in Cisco (proprietary):
Google News sends people to these fake sites when they search for "linux".
Maybe one day, once the bubble pops completely, Google News will just outright delist all slopfarms. █