Announcement Issue - Plagiarism and Social Media Sharing
I had quitely pointed out an article that was posted here that was basically copied and pasted from another source - possibly a few parts copied from elsewhere, I didn't examine it that closely.
This article has a bibliography, but the only way to see it is to have an email sent which can be done with the click of a button. Is this not against the sharing social media?
I'm really surprised to see that after I pointed out this article was basically a copy and paste (and then referred to as 'my article' by the OP) this is now up in the notifications with the announcements!
Maybe the "my article" thing was just a poor choice of words and they didn't mean to act like they wrote it?
Also maybe the "you need permission" for the bibliography was an accident? I know that allowing permission on google things is something a lot of people forget to do.
Idk maybe I'm being too optimistic
But yeah it's important that people don't click request access or else their email address will be given away to I don't even know who...
@Phthalo Yeah IDK. The having a bibliography suggests to me that an article is written in one's own words though. I felt like the OP was taking ownership for what was posted. I understand that instead of saying 'the link to the article I posted' just calling it 'my article' but when there is no acknowledgement that it's largely copied first the 'my article' takes on a clearer possessive statement.
As for the access issue, I can understand that being a mistake, but shouldn't that be examined before it's promoted to everyone on the site?
Unfortunately there are no mechanism yet to fight plagiarism in social media, everything you can do is to get in touch with technical support of Fb/Twitter/Instagram and to report the fact of stealing. But still you must be able to prove that it is plagiarism, in your case that will be easy. Usually people don't just copy and paste blindly, but use different tricks like word rearrangements, changes in the structure of sentence, active to passive voice changes (perfectly described here https://plagiarismcheck.org/blog/top-3-manipulations/ ). By the way, what social media are you talking about? I guess it is Facebook, right?