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The Problem with Consensual Plagiarism

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Sterling referred to this as “consensual plagiarism”, meaning that the marketing firm was making these works available for journalists and to use, with or without attribution, on their sites. Why Press Release Plagiarism Happens – and Why it Matters. Press release plagiarism is extremely common.

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The Nightmare Plagiarism Scenario Comes True

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.” In January 2021, the pair submitted it to the International Small Business Journal , a SAGE journal. They then submitted to another journal, The Journal of Entrepreneurship , another SAGE journal, which did the same. Vision is also a SAGE journal. Why was this copying not detected?

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The Peter Gleeson Plagiarism Scandal

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However, shortly after publication, another journalist, Josh Bavas, took to Twitter to ask why the article copied four paragraphs from a piece that he wrote two years prior. Johnson was fired from Buzzfeed in 2014 after plagiarism was found in 41 of the 500 words they examined following an initial plagiarism scandal.

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The UPenn Admissions Plagiarism Scandal

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Last week, a petition appeared on the site Change.org that asked the admissions department at the University of Pennsylvania to investigate a pair of students who, according to the organizers, were admitted to a prestigious program at the university despite having heavily plagiarized crucial works. On Predatory Journals and Admissions.

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The Challenge of Determining Podcast Plagiarism

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Katz took to Twitter to call out the Chilluminati Podcast for allegedly plagiarizing from his book, Gangsters of Capitalism. He provided a both an AI and a human created transcript of the podcast and highlighted how several plagiarism detection tools flagged passages as being similar to his work. Was it plagiarism?

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NBC Reporter Accused of Plagiarism in 11 Articles

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Specifically, the note said that the reporter in question had copied passages that were “not central to the stories” and instead represented background or supplemental material. The editor’s note is similar for each article, the only change being to highlight the specific elements that were copied. NBC’s Handling of the Case.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

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Back in September , I reported on Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report and how Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, noticed that nearly all the top posts on Facebook for the quarter were plagiarized. . However, Newton’s report comes as the Wall Street Journal is also examining Facebook’s efforts to block plagiarized and pirated content.