State of the (Linux) Slop, Late 2026 Edition
Google News (Gulag Noise) is a plagiarism booster
Lately we've seen Google News (Gulag Noise) contaminated/filled to the rim/overwhelmed by slopfarms to a rather disturbing degree. It's like quality control (for inclusion of domains, not of particular articles; we don't expect them to assess every single article!) went down the drain.
Any person with common sense and IQ above 70 can see and detect those as slop(farms). It's very darn obvious. Did Google instruct staff to stop doing this task? Did it offer them "buyouts"? (Layoffs)
It's awful. It's hard to get around or bypass.
It seems like the culprits are a few connected or interconnected networks of slopfarms. They're run by bad faith actors or plagiarism BS artists.
In addition to keeping track of multiple slopfarms we know of (e.g. fosslinux, linuxiac and about half a dozen others) we also need to keep abreast of extensive networks of slopfarms. Google doesn't derank them, it upranks them and gives them visibility. It gives them an incentive ("googlejuice") to carry on and on.
We recently mentioned some "linux" (in their name) slopfarms perishing, but Google News (Gulag Noise) is offsetting things in favour of LLM slop with sloppy images.
Shame on Google. █