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A big chunk of Trump's 1776 report appears lifted from an author's prior work
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Tina Nguyen
@tina_nguyen
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Jan 19, 2021
NEW from me: The controversial 1776 Report contains at least three instances of recycled and copied work.
An entire page of the report was lifted, near-verbatim and unattributed, from a 2008 article by one of the Commission's members.
A big chunk of Trump’s 1776 report appears lifted from an author’s prior work
The report was meant to be the definitive conservative rendering of U.S. history. But historians have slammed it as sloppy and slanted.
politico.com
Tina Nguyen
@tina_nguyen
in internet terms, the 1776 Report was a right-wing copypasta
2:50 PM · Jan 19, 2021
Tina Nguyen
@tina_nguyen
·
Jan 19, 2021
NEW from me: The controversial 1776 Report contains at least three instances of recycled and copied work.
An entire page of the report was lifted, near-verbatim and unattributed, from a 2008 article by one of the Commission's members.
A big chunk of Trump’s 1776 report appears lifted from an author’s prior work
The report was meant to be the definitive conservative rendering of U.S. history. But historians have slammed it as sloppy and slanted.
politico.com
Tina Nguyen
@tina_nguyen
in internet terms, the 1776 Report was a right-wing copypasta
2:50 PM · Jan 19, 2021
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-1776-report-plagiarism-460464