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Slopwatch: "Open Source" and "Linux" News Faked, Made by Bots and Entered Into Google News

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 04, 2025

Enrolling fake news into Google isn't hard. Not anymore. Google just doesn't seem to care, and to make matters even worse it's not just neglect either as Google participates in making slop. It has an incentive there.

Spam combined with slop about "Linux" has entered Google News:

Google News is also promoting the following three right not, mostly ripoffs of Phoronix articles in a prolific slopfarm, webpronews.com:

The images are fake, the text is fake. Even the author names are fabricated.

Then there's linuxsecurity.com:

SEO spam made by bots, as usual from that site. █

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