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This is a stolen/uncredited rehost on a garbage blog from a Russian source from almost a month ago: https://www.ixbt.com/news/2021/08/24/4600-chery-qq-ice-cream...

This website has the same content word for word in English, likely just put through Google Translate: https://www.worldstockmarket.net/a-modern-electric-car-for-4... but properly cites the Russian blog.

I was able to find the original source by reverse-searching the images used. IXBT cites another Russian blog as the source https://newsyou.info/chery-predstavil-neobychnyj-elektromobi... but altered the wording. That blog in turn cites another Russian blog with different wording: https://avtodream.org/vse-novosti/novinki/40708-chery-predst... which cites yet another Russian blog incorrectly and the trail is lost.

Regardless, the OP site isn't the original source and the site itself is barely a year old, consisting entirely of stolen content. That site is also tied to another 4 day old website that consists entirely of stolen content: technewsspace.com - the sites share the same Google Adsense code: CA-pub-8819900454201426

This post is plain spam.

Recently I discovered a YouTube channel relieving videos a matter of seconds apart consistently for months which appears to script video generation from stackoverflow articles.

Is there any hope of this meaningless content generation ever going to stop? I would l o v e for stackoverflow to litigate against some of these bodies, purely to stem the flow.

No, I don't think there is. There was an interesting The Atlantic article posted the other day that touches on what you mentioned that's worth a read: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-...

I've developed mod-bots for Reddit that are meant to combat garbage bot accounts and garbage youtube channels but it's an unending onslaught of garbage.

> Is there any hope of this meaningless content generation ever going to stop?

No, Google has few regiments worth of antifraud/antibot specialists, and they are all being consistently defeated.

It's just like drug running is never going to be defeated if demand is worth it, and somebody from a poor country can make a few dollars per hour running a bot farm.

In reality though, I heard that top tier ad fraud consistently makes a few dozen new USD millionaires a year just in that part of IT crowd in Russia which deals in the greyzone in between black, and white hat activity.

The kind of Sherlock we all need.

Cheers. I do this type of thing on Reddit constantly as it's an unending tide of garbage there. I saw someone posting a fake MSNBC clone site the other day and it was tied to a dozen other fake clone sites just like it, these fake-site networks are everywhere if you poke around a bit.

One has to wonder what will be the eventual solution to fake-news spreading on the Internet.

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