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Plagiarism watchdogs target Fareed Zakaria
August 20, 2014

The anonymous watchdogs who outed BuzzFeed's Benny Johnson for serial plagiarism have set their sights on a far bigger target: Fareed Zakaria, the veteran foreign policy journalist who has claimed that a previous plagiarism incident was merely a "terrible mistake."

In Tuesday's report, @blippoblappo & @crushingbort cite 12 instances where Zakaria appears to have lifted passages wholesale from other authors. Their findings cast doubt on the three news outlets -- Time Magazine, CNN and The Washington Post -- which claimed to have conducted reviews of Zakaria's work and found the so-called "mistake" to be an isolated incident. Read more
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