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Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, and Various Slopfarms Propped up by Google News

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 25, 2025

Tonight's Slopwatch deals with some weekend (or Friday) examples, starting with the slopfarm LinuxSecurity:

Tar is not part of Linux, but slop doesn't get that.

We're also nowadays dealing with the burst of slop from UbuntuPIT. There were about half a dozen like this one on the same day:

So he admits it's slop, but he keeps doing it. For a few days he stopped; then he resumed.

In Google News, which is supposed to be able to curate for quality and correctly identify slopfarms, there's this pair of fake articles today:

Google News has also just promoted this slopfarm:

People search Google News for "linux" and then get stories with fake authors, fake text, and fake images.

Why can't Google News do better than this? █

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