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Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com and Various Slopfarms That Lie About "Linux" and Are Promoted by Google News

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 09, 2025

This morning's installment of "Slopwatch" focused only on slopfarms, starting with the following one that is (as usual) ripping off articles about various "security" and "Linux" news in order to come up with fakes, made by LLMs:

Those are the latest two. They're LLM slop about distro releases. They're SEO spam. The aim is to trick Google into sending traffic to a company using no actual work, just some slop-slinging.

And speaking of Google, there is a growing number of slopfarms in Google News (at least 3 run by the same people, almost same headlines and slop images). The following are all fake:

It's blaming "Linux" for Microsoft garbage in this network of slopfarms. They do this in quantity and flood Google News, with almost no variation, even typos in the first headline. Those images are fake.

The same parasitic slopfarms also present a social engineering issue (phishing) as a "Linux" problem:

We covered this in the morning. They keep slinging away slop to distort the meaning of the original and real article. And then there's this:

Yet another fake article. Google does not seem interested in tackling this problem; it tries to sell "Gemini", but which is means... slop (not Gemini Protocol). █