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News website BuzzFeed, reportedly valued at $1 billion, has fired one its high-profile writers over plagiarism.
Following a review of his work, Benny Johnson, the site's viral politics editors, has been fired, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith announced in a blog post on Friday night
"After carefully reviewing more than 500 of Benny’s posts, we have found 41 instances of sentences or phrases copied word for word from other sites," Smith said in a statement on BuzzFeed's website. "Benny is a friend, colleague, and, at his best, a creative force, but we had no choice other than letting him go." Read more...
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