From The Blog
It cannot read the human heart
20 February 2026
“... A friend in China messaged me on WeChat. ‘What are your thoughts on the plagiarism scandal?’‘What scandal?’ I asked.‘How could you not know? It’s all over the internet.’ They meant the Chinese internet: in particular, social media platforms such as WeChat Moments, Weibo, RedNote and Bilibili. They sent me some links.Since November 2024, a book influencer on RedNote has been publishing posts featuring side-by-side excerpts from works by different authors that contained similar, and in many cases identical, sentences and paragraphs ... ”

