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How the Internet Busted Germany's Minister of Defense for Plagiarizing his Ph.D. Thesis

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on February 20, 2011

Germany’s minister of defense Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg plagiarized large parts of his Ph.D. thesis. This scandal would likely have rocked Germany’s political scene even before the Internet, but the massive extend of his academic fraud only became public thanks to a massive crowdsourced effort and the smart use of a Wikia-hosted wiki.

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