plagiarism Watch: Striking, er, similarities between Duke student's 2022 commencement speech and Harvard student's speech from 2014 David Pescovitz
music Does Dua Lipa's "Levitating" infringe another song? Only if pop music began in 2017. Rob Beschizza
mistakes Snopes co-founder revealed as serial plagiarist, planned to fill site with "traffic-generating junk" Rob Beschizza
plagiarism "Tortured" phrases used to fool plagiarism detectors now infest scientific papers Rob Beschizza
plagiarism Principal busted for plagiarizing another principal's reflections on the pandemic year. Twice. David Pescovitz
Science More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after "bombshell" report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct Cory Doctorow
canada Alberta's tax-funded climate denial "war room" ripped off its logo from a US tech company Cory Doctorow
bots News plagiarism sites run real stories through thesaurus to avoid detection, to hilarious effect Rob Beschizza
plagiarism High school student claims principal plagiarized Ashton Kutcher for graduation speech David Pescovitz
corruption Text-mining journalists find that lawmakers introduced 10,000 bills that were copypasted from lobbyists' "model legislation" Cory Doctorow
Boing Boing Gadgets Samsung faked a smartphone portrait with a stock photo taken with a DSLR Rob Beschizza
