Populating Google News With Chatbot Spew: As Much as 30% of Results in Gulag Noise Is Not "News" But Garbage (Sometimes Generated by a Single Site)
Example from only moments ago:
OVER the past month or two "BNN Breaking" dominated results for "Linux", "Ubuntu" etc. How can Google News not detect that it is chatbot spew? It's very obvious to a human reader. Then again, a lot of Google News staff got laid off a few months ago.
There are other examples of sites that are chatbot spew and we're keeping track of them in Git. It helps with curation. Some are outright spam, not just plagiarism. "BNN Breaking" is one of many and in recent days we saw it dominating about 30% of results (not every day). It's getting ridiculous and it means that Google News isn't functioning anymore. This is partly the fault of Microsoft. It is aiding scammers and cheats. █