Slashdot Media Turned Linux Journal Into a Slopfarm and Now Slashdot Actively Promotes Anti-Linux Slopfarms
Parasite or media?
Background:
- Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms
- Slashdot is Once Again Publishing Lies and Revisionism for Bill Gates, Citing Microsoft's MSN to Rewrite History and Distract From the Jeffrey Epstein Crimes
- Slashdot Media and Linux Journal: Missing Pages, Allegedly
- Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors'
Information online is under attack. People who write information are also under attack. LLMs are among the weapons used against both (there are other weapons).
One journalist has just told us about "Fatioli (nerds.xyz) = [being] FUD + CLICKBAIT"...
Like we didn't already know that. We keep writing about it without advertising the domain.
From BetaNews comments: (after they sacked him, probably for spam)
He then advertised his new site. The BetaNews team then marked Brian as spam!!
We saw that comment before it was deleted as "spam". Even BetaNews recently considered its own (former) staff to be a spammer!
"Apparently," the journalist told us, "Fatioli was kicked out from BetaNews a month ago for letting the AI do his work and he made a new site (nerds.xyz) writing FUD and CLICKBAIT about Linux.... stealing news from 9to5Linux, Phoronix, and others who actually keep an eye on things and still write the news."
"Just like BetaNews, nerds.xyz is not a reliable source of news," he said, "and he keeps promoting himself on Slashdot..."
Slashdot has long let him submit and promote to the front page LLM slop of his. Slashdot basically sent readers to fake articles, submitted by Fagioli himself.
This is not a new problem. Later on respected people (like Bruce Schneier, who follows Slashdot) would not only link to slop but also based articles on the slop they saw in Slashdot.
"He actually admits that AI is writing for him..."
So says the journalist, adding: ""no-nonsense tech news" LOL"
Yes, "no-nonsense" apparently means actual nonsense. LLM slop, that is.
The journalist gave a new example: "The idiot talks about GParted Live 1.7.0 like it was released today.... when in fact GParted Live 1.7.0 was released in January 2025. Today's release is the second update in the GParted Live 1.7.0 series... a.k.a. version 1.7.0-8."
The good news is that BetaNews identified the problem and did something about it.
As for Slashdot Media, it not only turned Linux Journal into a slopfarm while deleting many old and real articles. It now feeds a slopfarm of the person ousted by BetaNews. █