#plagiarism — Public Fediverse posts
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I've seen some really bad apologies, but this one's a real doozy. What Ross Barkan thinks he did wrong is that he "did not paraphrase well enough." Seriously, somebody who claims to be a journalist wrote that.
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Mediaite: Ross Barkan Apologizes Amid Mounting Plagiarism Accusations
https://www.mediaite.com/media/ex-new-york-magazine-writer-taking-time-to-self-reflect-after-probe-finds-dozens-of-instances-of-plagiarism/
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An expert witness in a multi-million-dollar lawsuit was caught using AI to draft his report. Then his former clients tried to disqualify him.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/19/expert-witness-caught-using-ai-to-write-report/
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@Black_Flag A faulty #plagiarism detector, that delivered false positives!
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@Black_Flag The charge of #plagiarism against Jason #Arday was disproved, yet he was still harassed out of his professorial job at #Cambridge over it, even though it was false!
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New York Magazine has parted ways with columnist Ross Barkan after an investigation found citation issues in 67 of his columns.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/17/new-york-mag-fires-ross-barkan-over-plagiarism/
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R.I.P. Jason Arday (1985-2026)
Jason Arday, pictured in 2023I read the terrible news about the death of Jason Arday on Friday evening. The first thing I want to do is express heartfelt condolences to his family – especially his wife and two children – and his friends and former colleagues and my hope that the media who hounded Prof. Arday to his death will at least give them some space to mourn his loss.
The word “tragedy” is often misused, applied to any event that is sad which this certainly is. The case of Jason Arday is a true tragedy in the sense arising from Greek drama: the central protagonists are always flawed characters who makes bad decisions, but are propelled relentlessly towards their fate by forces entirely beyond their control. Once the right-wing media lynch mob got hold of this story they were never going to back off. This is just some of the coverage from one newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.
Source: BlueskyYes, Arday did bad things, but the media attention was utterly disproportionate. Nobody could be expected to withstand such treatment. How did the people churning out these articles think this would end?
I find this whole saga bleaker than anything Sophocles wrote, because nobody comes out of it with any credit at all. Not Arday himself, nor Cambridge University, nor the press, nor Nathan Cofnas, the white supremacist blogger who brought everything out into the open. The latter may have exposed academic misconduct, but his motivation was rooted in his racist views and undoubtedly malicious.
Of course academic misconduct is wrong, but it does not warrant a death sentence. And where was the media furore when a (white) History professor at Cambridge, William O’Reilly, was found to have plagiarised his own students essays? Professor O’Reilly, incidentally, remains in post. That’s just one example. I’m sure there are dozens more that we know nothing about, because they couldn’t be used to further racist ends. If standards are not applied equally then they can be used to reinforce prejudice, as they have in this case. It’s called hypocrisy.
The usual Culture Warmongers are using this case to further their agenda against the principles of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion which are supposed to be adopted in universities and other institutions. For myself, this tragedy demonstrates that EDI* principles are not satisfied by mere tokenism, a facile form of window-dressing that does nothing to change the culture within the organisation.
(*For any Americans reading this I use the UK/European EDI in preference to the DEI used in the States which reminds me too much of OPUS DEI.)
In a slightly different context, this is why I have become cynical about the “widening participation” efforts by many higher-education institutions to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds. These may succeed in bringing more such students into courses – and hence greater income to the university – but they are rarely backed up by the support needed to enable them to succeed. Many institutions do not even track the outcomes of these students, not because they can’t but because The Management doesn’t care: once they’re in through the door that’s “job done”.
I came from what some people would call a disadvantaged background, although I don’t think of it that way. That I have had a career in academia is a result of an enormous amount of luck, starting way back in primary school. I would dearly like to see a system in which luck wasn’t so important, but what is being done now is not the way to achieve that. If we’re going to do EDI – and we should – let’s do it properly.
UPDATE: 20/8/2026. Nathan Cofnas has been suspended by Gent University pending a disciplinary process.
#DEI #Diversity #EDI #Equity #Inclusion #JasonArday #Plagiarism -
Despite the myth that #academia is the bastion of civilization, in the real world, it is a place of threats, envy, and opportunism. #JasonArday may have taken his life following an accusation of #plagiarism. Very sad end to a gifted individual who no doubt faced enormous internal pressure and as usual, it's the fucking British press behind it - the same pond scum who regularly cuddle up to the real frauds like #Farage and #Trump.
Be at peace Jason.
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring
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Derf Backderf: "I’m ready to weigh in on the CHARITY & SYLVIA controversy. I’ve read both books and compared & contrasted them, and their sources.
Is Tillie Walden’s book a rip off of Rachel Hope Cleves’ book, as the professor claims?
No. It is not."
Please do read the post; accusing someone of plagiarism by implying ownership of public research materials is shitty as fuck, and nakedly classist.
#CharityAndSilvia #RachelHopeCleves #TillieWalden #Plagiarism #PSA
https://buttondown.com/thene/archive/charity-and-sylvia-the-extraordinary-claims-of/
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-paper-mill-papers-peddled-ads-were-later-published #Plagiarism #Ethics #AcademicMisconduct #Engineering
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Check out "AI Plagiarism Checker Users Beware," my new article for "Media Literacy with Wes:"
https://wfryer.substack.com/p/ai-plagiarism-checker-users-beware -
Authors are increasingly facing allegations of using AI to generate their work. How do you prove that your writing is human? Here are some tools to help.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/11/how-to-prove-that-your-writing-is-not-ai/
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@steveroyle
Clear and compelling.“Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism.
“Before, I said that “generative AI repackages other writers’ ideas and words as your own, without giving them credit or citing appropriately.” A lot of people would say that constitutes plagiarism—especially people who make their living as creative writers. I generally agree with them, but that’s not the point of this post.
“What I’ve come to realize is that, regardless of any true similarity between your words and someone else’s, or your ideas and someone else’s, generative AI exposes you to risk that you, as a writer, cannot mitigate.
“This is true for three basic reasons:
“Plagiarism is subjective.
“Plagiarism is a continuum.
“Not all plagiarism accusations are made in good faith.”
End quote. The case of Gay, cited (NOT relitigated) makes the point (plagiarism accusations as a career-ender) even clearer. And you need to be able yo trust your co-authors - another reason for adopting an explicit standard.
Also mentions the original problem (or academic ‘sin’): the black box nature of generative AI/ LLMs such that you have no idea whose words or works it’s citing (so you can’t ‘fix’ it by adding the correct citations, for instance).#careerEndingAccusationsOfPlagiarism #genAI #LLMs #plagiarism #AbsentCitation #cannotFix #cannotMitigate #trust
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The AI Gardening Book Revolution has Arrived
https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2275291/the-ai-gardening-book-revolution-has-arrived
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CW: AI, LLM, Anthropic Copyright Infringement
Apparently #Anthropic has been ordered to pay ca. $1.5 billion for #copyright #infringement on about 500K #books they used to train #Claude along with the order to destroy any #unauthorized copies & #pirated files they possess:
Considering the amount of money they stand to make from Claude's continued existence, this seems like little more than a slap on the wrist to me. Also, I find it hard to believe how it will be possible to enforce the order to destroy the illicit files.
#AI #LibGen #PiLiMi #piracy #copyrightInfringement #plagiarism #theft #thievery #stealing #LLM #LLMs #BartzvAnthropic #Bartz #classAction #publisher #publishers #author #authors #settlement #ClaudeAI #trainingData
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📚 Ah, the classic tale of "I accidentally plagiarized but I’m totally fixing it" 🤦♂️! Nothing like launching a groundbreaking #app called Dark Hours, only to discover it's as original as a knock-off handbag 😂. But hey, at least there's a blog post coming to clear up the cosmic confusion 🌌.
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html #plagiarism #humor #development #blogging #originality #HackerNews #ngated -
Plagiarism has been in the news (due to the case of Jason Arday).... so its worth noting:
Much academic work is mostly 'inter-textual', it builds on & responds to previous academic work (published in the area of research).
So, apparent plagiarism is often just referencing failure! Missing or incomplete references end up looking like unattributed use.
This is why when I taught undergraduates I was very hard on bad referencing; my view is you *cannot* over reference.
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When I read the stories about Prof. Arday, my first thought is not about the sorry state of academia, or the victims of his lies — my first thought is that he must have the gift of the gab to a superhuman degree, charm oozing out of his every pore, a fascinating story to answer every question, the self-assurance of a demi-god. I expect that his students loved him.
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Plagiarism and a pig’s head: the rise and fall of Jason Arday – podcast
By Presented by Helen Pidd and Lanre Bakare, with Eli Block, Alex Atack, Nilufer Aumeerally and Brian McNamara; executive producer Homa KhaleeliJason Arday’s appointment as Cambridge’s youngest black professor made global headlines. Then questions about his meteoric rise began to snowball. Lanre Bakare reports.
#JasonArday #UniversityofCambridge #Highereducation #Race #UKnews #Raceineducation #Academics #Plagiarism #Cambridge #Education #TheGuardian #PresentedbyHelenPidd #LanreBakare #withEliBlock #AlexAtack #NiluferAumeerally #BrianMcNamara #executiveproducerHomaKhaleeli
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CW: political race theory
@BlackEnterp2018 @black-enterprise-BlackEnterp2018 Does anyone else remember the #plagiarism accusations sponsored through #whitesupremacist organizations against #blackscholars
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Embattled Cambridge professor Jason Arday has resigned following allegations of plagiarism and that he misrepresented his past.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/06/jason-arday-resigns-amid-plagiarism-scandal/
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Cambridge dons demand accountability over Jason Arday appointment https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/06/jason-arday-cambridge-dons-demand-accountability-grotesque-racism #JasonArday #UniversityOfCambridge #HigherEducation #Race #Academics #Plagiarism #Universities #Publishing #UkNews #HigherEducationPolicy
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Cambridge dons demand accountability over Jason Arday appointment
By Richard Adams Education editorExclusive: Academics say university must take responsibility for ‘grotesque racism’ unleashed and hold independent inquiry
#JasonArday #UniversityofCambridge #Highereducation #Race #Academics #Plagiarism #Universities #Publishing #UKnews #Highereducationpolicy #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor
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Cambridge professor Jason Arday resigns amid accusations of plagiarism
By Richard AdamsSociology professor to stand down after university announces investigation into his qualifications and career
#UniversityofCambridge #Plagiarism #Education #Highereducation #Academics #Universitycareers #Cambridge #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdams
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Cambridge professor Jason Arday resigns amid accusations of plagiarism https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/05/cambridge-professor-jason-arday-resigns-amid-accusations-of-plagiarism #UniversityOfCambridge #Plagiarism #Education #HigherEducation #Academics #UniversityCareers #Cambridge #UkNews
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An AI-generated news site was recently tied directly to a major PR firm. Here's why this effort failed so spectacularly but we still shouldn’t write it off.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/03/ai-generated-news-site-tied-to-pr-firm/
