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  1. Feb 2022
    1. Given how ambivalent and deeply personal the act of citation online can become, it makes sense that social media is littered with disclaimers about accreditation.

      This is very true. I have seen this in so many places online and it's been becoming a bigger problem in recent years. Social media sites have even had create fact checkers to make sure that information is accurate and that it is coming from a reliable source because when people copy someone's work many times it can be passed on and mis information can spread.

    2. When we reference someone by sharing or retweeting their work, we are promoting it for them within an economy of ideas. Accordingly, failure to cite certain work can be thought to devalue it, both intellectually and financially.

      I thought that this quote makes a really good point about plagiarizing. When we were younger, we were merely told that plagiarizing was bad because it's stealing someone's work and I think this quote really hits the nail on the head by explaining it's importance. Not only is it a big deal, but it's not giving credit where it's due to further help the original poster's work

    3. This summer, speechwriters plagiarized several lines from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech for Melania Trump’s at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

      I remember when Melania first did this speech and someone made an edit with Michelle Obama's original speech... it was nearly word for word. It not only shocks me that the first lady did this, but also how it seems she got away with plagiarizing.