Slopwatch: Fake Linux 'Articles' and Slopfarms with "Linux" in Their Names

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 27, 2025

Today's "Slopwatch" starts with Linux Journal, which in spite of elusive optimism is definitely still "slopping away":

The words and structure are a giveaway. Scanners aren't fooled either:

On we move to a completely fake site; webpronews is a slopfarm and it sometimes targets "Linux", as it did right around the start of Saturday (i.e. weekend when writers as opposed to bots are inactive or less active).

Showing fake GC face:

It hardly even looks like him. He also used to work for Microsoft.

Then some fake article with slop image about a kernel release:

So they are throwing bots at "Linux" to make some fake articles.

Clap for the Serial Slopper. The author names in that site seem to be fabricated, as we pointed out before.

We've pointed out LinuxTechLab's slop about slop lately. Well, it did it again:

Slop images and LLM slop... about slop.

Fantastic! █