Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Two days later, Business Insider reported that its investigative team had found numerous instances of plagiarism in the doctoral dissertation of Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, formerly a tenured professor of design at MIT. “This is both an infringement of Wikipedia’s copyright and academic plagiarism,” said Reagle, pointing …
If you thought you’d heard the last of Bill Ackman, following his self-appointed stint as the internet’s Main Character in the right-wing crusade to oust Harvard President Claudine Gay, well, I regret to inform you the man is at it again—this time, to whine loudly about how he’s found himself at the receiving end of the very battle he kicked …
