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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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