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BuzzFeed Has Fired Benny Johnson For 40 Instances of Plagiarism
BuzzFeed has fired Viral Politics editor Benny Johnson for multiple instances of plagiarism.
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Isn't that how most of those blog spam sites do their work? The copy and paste strategy?
Buzzfeed has a surprisingly good editorial team nowadays. Sure they still have the occasional list or survey but they have stepped up their game big time.
Yeah I see them on here occasionally.
Agreed their longform stuff is top notch.
I don't get it, why do people still do this. Its the friggen internet, it literally takes 10 seconds to chance an article for plagiarism, why risk your reputation like that?
Who will give him a job now?
Never heard of him.
His past gigs would have been cause for better scrutiny