Slopwatch: WebProNews and Google News Promoting Fake Articles About "Linux"
Today's "Slopwatch" is based on what Google News is presenting this past hour as news about "Linux". It got severely bad.
Two picks from the WebProNews slopfarm are targeting "OpenBSD" and "Linux":
Suffice to say, the images and text above are fake. Can nobody at Google see this, detect the issue, and act accordingly? Apparently not. Or maybe they just simply don't care.
They've also just propelled another slopfarm, this one presenting an issue with Windows/DLL files as "Linux":
It's the same in this slopfarm, also promoted by Google News:
The above is fake; and its sister site (slopfarm):
Same network of slopfarms having a go at "Linux":
Like the third slopfarm of this network, it's just repetition and permutation with slop images.
Google News is being flooded by these slopfarms, so when Linux news is being sought online (via Google News) many people will read bots that spew out FUD. They'll miss the actual news. █