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ZDNet

ZDNet is a technology tabloid-like news sites whose writers have many conflicts of interest; the difference between advertising and stories is rarely clear. CBS, the parent company, also runs CNET, which is a little more professional.

Here are some posts about ZDNet as analysed by Techrights over the years.

2023

  • At ZDNet, SJVN Apparently Assigned to Cover Microsoft and Proprietary Stuff, Not Linux
  • Two Microsoft Moles No Longer at ZDNet: Mary Jo Foley and Liam Tung
  • New Record Low: Only One 'Linux' Article in ZDNet in More Than Two Weeks


  • 2022

  • ZDNet's Liam Tung (Working for Microsoft on ZDNet's Payroll) Continues His Anti-Linux Tirades
  • TechRepublic (ZDNet Sister Site) a Pusher of Diploma Mills, Roping in ‘Linux Today’
  • ZDNet Used to Write About 3 'Linux' Stories Per Day. But Now...
  • OIN is Not the Answer and the Real Issue Is Software Patents
  • ZDNet's Exit Strategy: Ugly/Cheap Redesign, Infinite Scroll for Fake 'Traffic' ('Engagement'), and Hardly Any New 'Content'
  • ZDNet Turns Ugly. Really, Really Ugly.
  • Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Mouthpiece for Jim Zemlin, Salaried by (or via) ZDNet
  • ZDNet is Dying
  • The World of ‘Linux’ Through the Lens of ZDNet in 2022


  • 2021

  • Meme: IBM Has Paid ZDNet to Troll the Community
  • ZDNet Has Failed
  • ZDNet as a News Source is a Hoax
  • What ZDNet is Teaching Us About Linux
  • Welcome to ZDNet’s ‘Linux’ Section…
  • Phony 'Scandals' From Phony 'News' Site ZDNet
  • ZDNet Evidently Knows the Word 'Master' Isn't Racist (When Not Paid by IBM and Microsoft to Pretend That It is)
  • ZDNet Really Hates Golang (Maybe Because Microsoft Does)
  • Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) in ZDNet is the Norm
  • InteLeaks – Part V: Intel Misinformation Being Spread by ZDNet


  • 2020

  • Video: The FUD of the Month About GNU/Linux, Seeded by ZDNet and Similarly Awful Sites
  • ZDNet Has Just Cooked Another Crooked Story Tacitly Blaming Linux and Postgres for Something That's to Blame on Neither
  • Boycott ZDNet Unless You Fancy Being Lied to
  • The Biggest Back Doors Giant (Microsoft) Serves Malware to GNU/Linux Machines, Microsoft’s Media Partners Blame ‘Linux’
  • ZDNet: We Don't Always Do Microsoft Propaganda. Only 50% of the Time...
  • ZDNet Calls Windows Ransomware “Linux” to Keep Pages About Linux Full of Fear-Mongering Nonsense
  • ZDNet Keeps Promoting Software Patents Agenda in Its 'Linux' Section
  • Interplay Between Linux 'Advocacy' and Microsoft-Leaning Propaganda
  • Meme: Linux is Windows is Broken is Not Reliable...
  • Another Day of ZDNet Being ZDNet, Calling Windows “Linux” (to Confuse People and Help Microsoft Sell Vista 10)
  • At ZDNet, in 2020, “Linux” Means Microsoft and Windows
  • We Let Them Get Away With Murder, But They Make up for It by Banning Word
  • ZDNet's 'Linux' Section Isn't About Linux But About Microsoft
  • One Year Later Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' Libel Against Richard Stallman Remains Online and Uncorrected at ZDNet
  • (ZDNet) Promoting False Perspectives and Narratives About GNU/Linux to Let Microsoft Dominate/Control Everything (Sometimes Quite Cynically in the Name of ‘Security’ or ‘Responsibility’)
  • Ars Technica, ZDNet and Bleeping Nonsense Still Misreporting to Blame 'Linux' for Malware One Can Merely Add to Linux (Distracting From Systems With Back Doors, Such as Windows)
  • At ZDNet, Linux is Dangerous and Linux is Also Microsoft
  • 'Clickbait Star' ZDNet Does Not Know the Difference Between Linux and Docker Misconfiguration
  • ZDNet's 'Linux' Section: Linux is Full of Problems and It Loves/Embraces Software Patents
  • ZDNet Promoting LOT/OIN as a Force for Good. Says a Lot About ZDNet...
  • Gross Journalistic Misconduct at ZDNet (Microsoft-Sponsored CBS Tabloid)
  • Linux Foundation Gets Its 'Information' From Microsoft ZDNet
  • An Ode to ZDNet, the Best Tabloid of CBS
  • 'A Fish Rots From the Head Down': ZDNet is Managed by Microsoft Fans, Who Employ Other Microsoft Fans, So It's Not Really a News Site
  • ZDNet: We Cover 'Linux' to Actually Push Windows (Microsoft Pays Us to Do That)
  • ZDNet Proves Our Point by Doing Not a Single Article About Linux (RC7), Only About Linus and Windows Clickbait Junk
  • ZDNet is Totally a Microsoft Propaganda Machine
  • Dozens of GNU/Linux Distros Released Every Month (Lots of Actual News), But This is All ZDNet Has to Tell Us About 'Linux'
  • Microsoft 'Bought' ZDNet's 'Linux' Section
  • Today in ZDNet ‘Linux’: Linux is Not Secure and You Should Use Microsoft Proprietary Software With Spying and EULA
  • Another Fine Day for 'Linux' at ZDNet
  • ZDNet Continues to Stuff Its 'Linux' Section With Proprietary Software of Microsoft
  • Former Microsoft Employee: ZDNet is Owned by Microsoft (and Others) in Some Senses
  • Did Microsoft 'Buy' ZDNet?
  • One Need Only Look at ZDNet's 'Linux' Section to Understand It's a Microsoft Propaganda Operation
  • The Microsoft Propaganda Model


  • 2015

  • People of New Zealand Must Rise Up to Defend Sovereignty and Stop Software Patents


  • 2014

  • The Scam Which is ZDNet/CBS: Not Reporting the Real Crimes
  • Anti-GNU/Linux Agenda at ZDNet (Part of CBS) Noted Again


  • 2013

  • CBS is Censoring Its Writers’ Articles, Not Just Polite Comments It Disagrees With
  • Microsoft Bloggers Run ZDNet
  • Mike Masnick Mistakenly Calls ZDNet ‘Tech Press’, Not Realising It’s Agenda-filled Blogs Pretending to be Journalism/News
  • Has Microsoft Irreversibly Taken Over ZDNet (CBS) to Disseminate Its Lies?
  • More Microsoft Employees as ZDNet ‘Writers’, Microsoft Bribes Bloggers for AstroTurfing
  • Dubious Editorial Control in ZDNet


  • 2012

  • Microsoft Jack Back From Retirement to Save Vista 8


  • 2011

  • ZDNet UK: Is the Affair With Microsoft Over?
  • ZDNet Spins the Spreading of Free Software as a Loss to Free Software
  • The World According to ZDNet: Vista 7 a Whole Area of IT
  • ZDNet Censors Comments Editors Disagree With
  • Articles of ZDNet UK
  • Is ZDNet Collapsing?


  • 2010

  • ZDNet and IDG ‘Open Source’ Blogs Use Oracle for FUD
  • ZDNet’s ‘Open Source and Linux’ Blog Consults With Pro-Microsoft Campaigner
  • ZDNet’s “Open Source” Blog Still Hostile Towards Freedom (the “F” in FOSS)


  • 2009

  • New Lengthy Rebuttals to ZDNet’s Anti-Free Software Rhetorics
  • ZDNet Embeds Placements for Anti-Free Software Companies


  • 2008

  • ZDNet: “Microsoft Has Turned Into the Biggest Patent Troll in the World”
  • Editiorial Control and ‘Missing’ Writers


  • 2007

  • ZDNet Speculation About Patent Battles with Microsoft