ZDNet

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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.

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