{"id":120437,"date":"2023-10-26T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=120437"},"modified":"2023-10-26T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:09:17","slug":"rachel-reeves-accused-of-mass-plagiarism-in-new-book-including-wikipedia-rips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/politics\/rachel-reeves-accused-of-mass-plagiarism-in-new-book-including-wikipedia-rips\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves accused of mass plagiarism in new book, including Wikipedia rips"},"content":{"rendered":"
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been left red-faced this morning after it emerged parts of her new book on women and economics were plagiarised.<\/p>\n
Analysis by the Financial Times revealed entire sentences and paragraphs had been stolen from other sources without credit.<\/p>\n
Such sources include Wikipedia, The Guardian and a paper by fellow Labour MP Hilary Benn.<\/p>\n
More than 20 examples were discovered by the FT, who chose manual checks over plagiarism detection software.<\/p>\n
Ms Reeves\u2019s publishers have now admitted that citing source material \u201cdid not happen in every case\u201d.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Lee Anderson walks out in protest at BBC boss in showdown talks with Tory MPs<\/strong><\/p>\n The Shadow Chancellor\u2019s book also includes paragraphs and sentences where the content is almost identical to other source material, but with names and adjectives changed.<\/p>\n Perhaps most embarrassingly, while the book claims to promote women economists and how they shaped Ms Reeves\u2019s thinking, some biographical text about those economists was lifted wholesale from Wikipedia.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Ms Reeves has since said they \u201cstrongly refute the accusation that has been put to us by [the FT]\u201d.<\/p>\n They said: \u201cThese were inadvertent mistakes and will be rectified in future reprints.\u201d<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> <\/p>\n
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