So... I have a google news alert for "Groom Lake" (because of course I do) because it's a more statistically significant search term than "Area 51". Or was, anyway, until the stupid it burns. So what has typically been about a link every three weeks has become a whole bunch of things that Google is apparently finding and not being smart enough to decide is irrelevant.
In this one weird case, I'm kind of glad of that because whatever "desknews.org" is I'm not sure it's for, of or by humans, and I'm pretty sure English is not its first language. And weirdly enough, it barely tickles my ublock origin so if it's a spam haven it's not a great one. And it has precious few backlinks and the ones it has don't seem to go anywhere monetizable. And all the rest of the "articles" are also written as if by some half-mad post-apocalyptic AI as a way to tell its non-existent children about the world when it was human.
Those of you who computer better than me: what is this thing? It's hidden behind NameCheap.
I found a few posts that were obviously scraped from other sites and had some words replaced by synonyms (probably according to wordnet), e.g. this one includes the original byline linking to the author's posts on buzzfeed, where the original and more coherent article is the first listed. So they're plagiarizing clickbait and it reads strangely because they're making a half-assed attempt to hide it. As to why, I have no idea, I read through the source for a couple of pages and there's nothing shady in it. My best guess is it's an experiment, and once they're satisfied they can reliably game google they'll do something with it.