Is It Plagiarism or Jumping on a Trend? The Ethics of Social Media Content
Contently
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
A 2018 report by Jeff Allen, Facebook’s senior data scientist, noted that: “About 40 percent of the traffic to Facebook pages…went to pages that stole or repurposed most of their content.” Memes, sounds, trends, content formats, filters, and other types of content are made expressly to copy and/or reuse.
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