Slopwatch: The March of Slopfarms, From UbuntuPIT to Linux Journal and to Various Fake Sites Still Promoted by Google News

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2025

Today's or tonight's Slopwatch begins with sites that used to be real sites. UbuntuPIT used to have long, detailed articles. Now it's this nonsense:

The slop disclosure is now in light grey, barely visible:

Then we have the Linux Journal slopfarm, which is still in Google News.

To be fair to Google News, Linux Journal was a good brand; it used to be a legitimate source. But Google News seems unable to grasp that this site has morphed into a slop hub, including the latest:

Fake images, fake text, always attributed to the same person.

The usual slopfarms in Google News:

Those are not real articles.

So far only slopfarms have 'covered' Vinari, and Google News feels obliged to promote these:

Google News also let this notorious slopfarm be present all over the place today in "linux" searches:

Slop about slop:

Microsoft promotion:

Low-cost FUD:

Distracting from originals: (it's not Fedora, it is slop of it)

And from the Serial Slopper:

It's so worrying to see what the Web has become. It's being flooded or littered with slop. █

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