Google News as the Sole Source of Slop About "Linux", a Feeder of Slopfarms or Serial Sloppers
The Serial Slopper Brian Fagioli has not mentioned "linux" in his slopfarm lately. It's just slop about slop - the classic!
We've not seen slop in RSS feeds that we follow either. This likely means that no longer do legitimate sites try to 'experiment' with or dabble in slop. It just isn't worth it.
Google News is pointing to this slopfarm in relation to "Linux" (or "linux") at least twice today:
By now, one can only hope, most people know it's fake text, fake images, attributed to fake 'authors'. It's a form of plagiarism and it spreads serious falsehoods (we gave examples before).
There's this other slopfarm, one with "linux" in its name. It is fed by Google News again:
We've also checked the latest story [sic] in Linuxiac to see if it's fake. It is:
Google News may have just delisted it, or so we thought, but then we saw it still included a few times in results.
How long or how much longer can Linuxiac keep pretending to be a real site?
At least it's no longer hard to 'contain' the slop problem, knowing which domains are the culprits and seeing that Google is their main 'feeder'. █