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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelania Trump Cyberbullying Booklet Appears to Be Copied From FTC Document Released During Obama Adm
Two years ago, Melania Trump copied several lines in her Republican National Convention speech from an address Michelle Obama delivered in 2008. On Monday, Melania Trump formally announced the launch of an anti-cyberbullying initiative. As part of that initiative, the White House released a booklet that, in the words of Melanias signed introduction, is intended to help kids act thoughtfully and kindly online. And, as BuzzFeed News Ryan Mac points out, it appears that the booklet was almost completely copied from a document released by the Federal Trade Commission in 2014.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/melania-trump-cyberbullying-booklet-apparently-plagiarized.html
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)Perhaps the osteoarthritis be fired?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)You'd think she would learned.
Actually, I think this is something her staff did, trying to find a project for her.
SHE would be highly unlikely to stumble on the source of the plagiarized material. someone had to find it and bring it to her, perhaps as "their" idea.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They would have been smarter to attribute the information to it's original source, then add to or modify things that they disagreed with, with footnotes. The clumsiness of their effort is astounding. As far as Melania, she seems to be not much more inquisitive than her husband, so it is easy to see how a hack job work get the green light from her, I doubt that she even read it.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Very unfortunate. Cyberbullying is actually a worthy project, and it'd be great if national discussion wasn't distracted from that. There's no sport in the kick Melania thing, certainly.
oasis
(49,150 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,965 posts)But the Third Lady Melania's a serial plagiarize too.
Her supporters call FLOTUS Obama unclassy and worse. Yet, Melania's the classy one?
Uh NO.
She had a long time to work on her campaign, because she does very little else around that White House. Yet, she's okay knowing that her staff lifted and pasted someone elses hard work on cyber-bullying in her roll out campaign?