Plagiarism detection app vs Russia's elites: 1-2 fake PhDs discovered every day
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1EVD5)
Dissernet, a leaderless collective of Russian scientists and journalists scrapes the doctoral dissertations of Russian elites -- who have been attaining advanced degrees at an unprecedented rate -- runs them through plagiarism detection software to flag probable frauds for human review, and publishes the names of officials who've been caught cheating, one or two every day. (more")