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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.

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Here are some posts about ZDNet as analysed by Techrights over the years.

2023

At ZDNet, SJVN Apparently Assigned to Cover Microsoft and Proprietary Stuff, Not Linux
Two Microsoft Moles No Longer at ZDNet: Mary Jo Foley and Liam Tung
New Record Low: Only One 'Linux' Article in ZDNet in More Than Two Weeks

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

People of New Zealand Must Rise Up to Defend Sovereignty and Stop Software Patents

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

Microsoft Jack Back From Retirement to Save Vista 8

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

2007

ZDNet Speculation About Patent Battles with Microsoft

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