ZDNet
From Techrights
ZDNet is a technology tabloid-like news sites whose writers have many conflicts of interest; the difference between advertising and stories is rarely clear. CBS, the parent company, also runs CNET, which is a little more professional.
Here are some posts about ZDNet as analysed by Techrights over the years.
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2023
2022
- ZDNet's Liam Tung (Working for Microsoft on ZDNet's Payroll) Continues His Anti-Linux Tirades
- TechRepublic (ZDNet Sister Site) a Pusher of Diploma Mills, Roping in ‘Linux Today’
- ZDNet Used to Write About 3 'Linux' Stories Per Day. But Now...
- OIN is Not the Answer and the Real Issue Is Software Patents
- ZDNet's Exit Strategy: Ugly/Cheap Redesign, Infinite Scroll for Fake 'Traffic' ('Engagement'), and Hardly Any New 'Content'
- ZDNet Turns Ugly. Really, Really Ugly.
- Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Mouthpiece for Jim Zemlin, Salaried by (or via) ZDNet
- ZDNet is Dying
- The World of ‘Linux’ Through the Lens of ZDNet in 2022
2021
- Meme: IBM Has Paid ZDNet to Troll the Community
- ZDNet Has Failed
- ZDNet as a News Source is a Hoax
- What ZDNet is Teaching Us About Linux
- Welcome to ZDNet’s ‘Linux’ Section…
- Phony 'Scandals' From Phony 'News' Site ZDNet
- ZDNet Evidently Knows the Word 'Master' Isn't Racist (When Not Paid by IBM and Microsoft to Pretend That It is)
- ZDNet Really Hates Golang (Maybe Because Microsoft Does)
- Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) in ZDNet is the Norm
- InteLeaks – Part V: Intel Misinformation Being Spread by ZDNet
2020
- Video: The FUD of the Month About GNU/Linux, Seeded by ZDNet and Similarly Awful Sites
- ZDNet Has Just Cooked Another Crooked Story Tacitly Blaming Linux and Postgres for Something That's to Blame on Neither
- Boycott ZDNet Unless You Fancy Being Lied to
- The Biggest Back Doors Giant (Microsoft) Serves Malware to GNU/Linux Machines, Microsoft’s Media Partners Blame ‘Linux’
- ZDNet: We Don't Always Do Microsoft Propaganda. Only 50% of the Time...
- ZDNet Calls Windows Ransomware “Linux” to Keep Pages About Linux Full of Fear-Mongering Nonsense
- ZDNet Keeps Promoting Software Patents Agenda in Its 'Linux' Section
- Interplay Between Linux 'Advocacy' and Microsoft-Leaning Propaganda
- Meme: Linux is Windows is Broken is Not Reliable...
- Another Day of ZDNet Being ZDNet, Calling Windows “Linux” (to Confuse People and Help Microsoft Sell Vista 10)
- At ZDNet, in 2020, “Linux” Means Microsoft and Windows
- We Let Them Get Away With Murder, But They Make up for It by Banning Word
- ZDNet's 'Linux' Section Isn't About Linux But About Microsoft
- One Year Later Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' Libel Against Richard Stallman Remains Online and Uncorrected at ZDNet
- (ZDNet) Promoting False Perspectives and Narratives About GNU/Linux to Let Microsoft Dominate/Control Everything (Sometimes Quite Cynically in the Name of ‘Security’ or ‘Responsibility’)
- Ars Technica, ZDNet and Bleeping Nonsense Still Misreporting to Blame 'Linux' for Malware One Can Merely Add to Linux (Distracting From Systems With Back Doors, Such as Windows)
- At ZDNet, Linux is Dangerous and Linux is Also Microsoft
- 'Clickbait Star' ZDNet Does Not Know the Difference Between Linux and Docker Misconfiguration
- ZDNet's 'Linux' Section: Linux is Full of Problems and It Loves/Embraces Software Patents
- ZDNet Promoting LOT/OIN as a Force for Good. Says a Lot About ZDNet...
- Gross Journalistic Misconduct at ZDNet (Microsoft-Sponsored CBS Tabloid)
- Linux Foundation Gets Its 'Information' From Microsoft ZDNet
- An Ode to ZDNet, the Best Tabloid of CBS
- 'A Fish Rots From the Head Down': ZDNet is Managed by Microsoft Fans, Who Employ Other Microsoft Fans, So It's Not Really a News Site
- ZDNet: We Cover 'Linux' to Actually Push Windows (Microsoft Pays Us to Do That)
- ZDNet Proves Our Point by Doing Not a Single Article About Linux (RC7), Only About Linus and Windows Clickbait Junk
- ZDNet is Totally a Microsoft Propaganda Machine
- Dozens of GNU/Linux Distros Released Every Month (Lots of Actual News), But This is All ZDNet Has to Tell Us About 'Linux'
- Microsoft 'Bought' ZDNet's 'Linux' Section
- Today in ZDNet ‘Linux’: Linux is Not Secure and You Should Use Microsoft Proprietary Software With Spying and EULA
- Another Fine Day for 'Linux' at ZDNet
- ZDNet Continues to Stuff Its 'Linux' Section With Proprietary Software of Microsoft
- Former Microsoft Employee: ZDNet is Owned by Microsoft (and Others) in Some Senses
- Did Microsoft 'Buy' ZDNet?
- One Need Only Look at ZDNet's 'Linux' Section to Understand It's a Microsoft Propaganda Operation
- The Microsoft Propaganda Model
2015
2014
- The Scam Which is ZDNet/CBS: Not Reporting the Real Crimes
- Anti-GNU/Linux Agenda at ZDNet (Part of CBS) Noted Again
2013
- CBS is Censoring Its Writers’ Articles, Not Just Polite Comments It Disagrees With
- Microsoft Bloggers Run ZDNet
- Mike Masnick Mistakenly Calls ZDNet ‘Tech Press’, Not Realising It’s Agenda-filled Blogs Pretending to be Journalism/News
- Has Microsoft Irreversibly Taken Over ZDNet (CBS) to Disseminate Its Lies?
- More Microsoft Employees as ZDNet ‘Writers’, Microsoft Bribes Bloggers for AstroTurfing
- Dubious Editorial Control in ZDNet
2012
2011
- ZDNet UK: Is the Affair With Microsoft Over?
- ZDNet Spins the Spreading of Free Software as a Loss to Free Software
- The World According to ZDNet: Vista 7 a Whole Area of IT
- ZDNet Censors Comments Editors Disagree With
- Articles of ZDNet UK
- Is ZDNet Collapsing?
2010
- ZDNet and IDG ‘Open Source’ Blogs Use Oracle for FUD
- ZDNet’s ‘Open Source and Linux’ Blog Consults With Pro-Microsoft Campaigner
- ZDNet’s “Open Source” Blog Still Hostile Towards Freedom (the “F” in FOSS)
2009
- New Lengthy Rebuttals to ZDNet’s Anti-Free Software Rhetorics
- ZDNet Embeds Placements for Anti-Free Software Companies
2008
- ZDNet: “Microsoft Has Turned Into the Biggest Patent Troll in the World”
- Editiorial Control and ‘Missing’ Writers
