Slopwatch: Fake Articles and Google News Promoting "Linux" Spam or Bot-Generated Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)
Today's Slopwatch won't cover Fagioli, whose slopfarm is about slop, not Linux. Has he given up yet? Maybe not yet. Slop about slop is a slippery slope (or slop).
Over at the LinuxSecrity slopfarm, there's this:
To be clear, npm is Microsoft, so Microsoft is - and has long been - transmitting malware (later it issues some spin, trying to paint itself as a saviour rather than negligent culprit).
These slopfarms help misplace blame.
Worst of all the slopfarms was the following triplet, domains which are operated by the same people and get rewarded by Google:
"Linux Sudo" - conflating the kernel with sudo in all the fake 'articles' with fake images, promoted by Google News. And then some more of the same:
And this one:
Here's how to even associate a new release with "vulnerabilities":
Way to distract from real coverage.
Google News still unable to detect that all the above domains are slopfarms that game it?
Why does Google seem so eager to advance plagiarism and FUD made by LLMs?
Here's another slopfarm that it is promoting:
As usual, fake text, fake image, fake author. That seems OK with Google News. █