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Slopwatch: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Propaganda and Cover-up, Slopfarms Clogging Up Google News

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 17, 2025

Today's "Slopwatch" will be short and to the point because we have many important issues to cover aside from slop-tracking activities that observe googlebombing of "Linux". Let's set aside the Brian Fagioli slop machine (which makes it into Google News via BetaNoise) and instead focus on 4 items that made it into Google News last night when searching for "Linux" news. Two twin slopfarms with keyword stuffing appeared in Google News:

Pwn2Own Day 1 – Windows 11, Red Hat Linux, and Oracle VirtualBox Hacked

Pwn2Own

Google says it hired the brightest people, yet for almost half a year already none has been able to see that the above sites are fake? Google News keeps sending traffic to sites which are 100% machine-generated. It rewards cheating, plagiarism, and misinformation.

Here is more:

Tor Oniux Tool Offers Anonymous Linux App Traffic

Fake article from a slopfarm. Same as this:

Linux Kernel Patching and Preventing Exploits in 2025

Or this:

Securing Linux Containers – A Guide for Cloud-Native Environments

More LLM slop:

Chainguard Libraries for Python Tackles Python Supply Chain Risks

This one spreads a Microsoft cover-up/lie/spin as others did before it, misusing access to sites to make LLM-generated ripoffs.

Windows Update Fixes Linux Dual-Boot Boot Issues

There's so much wrong with this spin. Microsoft engaged in sabotage/vandalism and it now (almost a year late) gets described as some sort of saviour. Why did it wait so long?

A month or so after it happened (more like 2 weeks later) we sued the person who attempted to spin what had been done by Microsoft [1, 2] because he did illegal things to my family. He'll need to pay for it.

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