Slopwatch: UbuntuPIT, linuxsecurity.com, and Various Slopfarms in Google News Attacking "Linux"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 16, 2025

Today's Slopwatch begins with UbuntuPIT because it is turning into a slopfarm or part-time slopfarm (or content farm of mildly edited LLM slop, derived from other people's original works). Some original authors complained to us about what UbuntuPIT is doing. Here are two new examples:

LLM slop:

This one also:

It seems to be linking to the original it's derived from.

Just because they link to the original/s does not mean the slop is ethical.

Then consider the linuxsecurity.com slopfarm:

They're always negative about Linux. They try to sell something. And the slop exists for SEO purposes.

Over at Google News, pure slopfarms (fake text, fake images) show up speaking about "Linux Rootkits":

The issue here is Cisco and the 'article' is fake.

"Linux Rootkits" again from a sister slopfarm, boosted in tandem by Google News:

And this notorious slopfarm flooding Google News:

DHH’s face does not look even remotely similar to this. Google seems happy to link to fake 'articles' with fake author names, fake images, and fake text.

Says a lot about the state of the Web, does it not? A new survey of the Web said that the majority of the Web is now slop (that's being said in the news this week). █