The New York Times helped develop the following because they can no longer trust their own “journalists“:

The LexisNexis data collection service has introduced CopyGuard, a program aimed at exposing plagiarists or spotting copyright infringement. According to John Barrie, chief executive of iParadigms, the company that developed the program with LexisNexis, CopyGuard can generate a report that calculates the percentage of material suspected of not being original, highlights that text and pinpoints its possible original source, all within seconds.

“We take digital fingerprints of individual documents and compare them to the digital fingerprints of existing documents.”

Somehow, it just seems cheaper to read blogs.

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