Slopwatch: Fake Articles (Slop) in "Linux" Clothing in Google News (Noise)
Tonight's Slopwatch is all about what Google is pushing as 'news' about Linux, starting with a new parasitic site, "findarticles.com". It now dominates Google News. From recent hours alone:
How can Google not yet detect that all this text and images are slop? Does Google not mind?
'Help Net Security' (helpnetsecurity.com), which also pivots to slop, had a go at the many Xubuntu articles:
Maybe a lot of this was manually edited (totally plausible), but writers of the originals tell us that Zeljka Zorz, the Editor-in-Chief, is ripping off their work. Maybe she'll stop doing this over time, aware of the criticism. We hope she'll stop it. No slop, simply not worth it! Don't go there...
And finally, Google News has also just promoted this slopfarm again:
Fake author, fake text, fake image. Welcome to the "modern" Web. █