US Vice President Kamala Harris is under investigation over allegations of plagiarism in a book she co-wrote in 2009. newsweekDr Stefan Weber, a renowned ‘plagiarism hunter’ from Austria, claimed the book by Ms Harris and co-author Joan O’Cie Hamilton contained 27 “pieces of plagiarism”. ‘Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer’Mr. Weber and his team also alleged that the Democratic presidential candidate and his co-author copied and pasted from the Wikipedia article for the book.
according to newsweekMr Weber accused Ms Harris of reproducing verbatim language from sources such as news articles and studies in her report. “Kamala Harris fabricated a source reference, invented a non-existent page number. Goodwill Industries’ self-promotional material was copied verbatim without citing the source (Goodwill Industries is their ‘primary partner’ in the ‘Back on Track’ program ) ),” she said.
“In many other instances, even when a source was cited with a footnote, the text was simply copied and pasted without using quotation marks. Even in non-academic books, citation Markings may have been the most transparent and honest approach. Further signs of dishonesty may have become apparent when sources were copied but specific details were changed, such as replacing the Subway store owner with a sandwich shop clerk (page 124) or Highlighting Southeast Asia in the Context of the American Gang Problem (page 184),” Mr. Weber added.
Furthermore, the Austrian professor alleged that a specific mention of New York City’s Midtown Community Court in the book concerned its use of language and structure that closely mirrored the Wikipedia article, indicating a lack of proper citation and paraphrasing. Is. Mr Weber also highlighted minor and serious violations and claimed that some text was copied directly from sources without adequate acknowledgement. In their report, they also raised specific plagiarism allegations regarding the mention of West Palm Beach Community Court in Ms. Harris’s book.
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“After copying from the Wikipedia article, she follows up by copying from the PDF linked in the first reference to the Wikipedia article. However she does admit at the end of the book that she took the examples of community courts from that report (URLs provided Without, the copied sections are presented as if they were one’s own words, word-for-word copying still requires quotation marks to maintain proper attribution,” Mr. Weber said. wrote.
He also pointed out that although parts of the appropriate material may be cited, substantial portions of the original source are not acknowledged, a technique known as “pawn sacrifice plagiarism”.
Mr. Weber even claimed that in 2009, Ms. Harris gave a “live” interview about the book to CBS, “which in part incorporated an earlier interview with another media outlet that in turn featured her book. “Contained several verbatim text fragments.”
Meanwhile, reacting to the allegations, Senator JD Vance trolled Ms Harris for using Wikipedia and claimed that she at least wrote her book herself. “Lmao Kamala didn’t even write her book!” He tweeted.
Donald Trump Jr. also commented on the issue, writing, “Hi! More proof that Kamala Harris is a fraud!!!”
