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Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2025,

updated Dec 09, 2025

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Today's Daily Links are done (both batches). Lots of news lately has been about slop waning and falling off a cliff, both in financial terms and in terms of performance - however one measures it.

We too have noticed that slop usage/abundance has waned. Almost all the sites that targeted "linux" (or "ubuntu" or whatever) with slop are dead, stagnant, or back to real writing (real text, real images, not ripoffs).

The only exception to that which we found today was this pseudonym:

HTTPS image: Slop or fake: Understanding Firewall Rule Order and Its Impact on Traffic Decisions

Aside from that, Google News got hammered by a triplet of slopfarms operated by the same person/s, who slaps the same junk (fake text, fake images) into at least three domains.

Google News has determined all the following are "linux" news:

HTTPS image: Slop or fake: AI Tools Reveal the Stealthy GhostPenguin Backdoor Targeting Linux Systems
HTTPS image: Slop or fake: GhostPenguin Backdoor With Zero-Detection Attacking Linux Servers Uncovered Using AI-Automated Tools
HTTPS image: Slop or fake: AI-Driven Tools Uncover GhostPenguin Backdoor Attacking Linux Servers

Can Google not detect a pattern here?

Or here:

HTTPS image:

How bad has Google News become? Well, bad enough to include the following 9 picks from the same slopfarm (WebProNews) in one day:

A lot of these are plagiarised Phoronix. Google News seems lost and hopeless sometimes. It's run by a company that's doomed to collapse the moment more shareholders recognise slop (painted as "AI") is just a flop. █

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