The first sign of trouble at the Kentucky Post Pioneer (postpioneer.com), a recent addition to Google News, is the notation found at the bottom of each article. It reads:
Our editors found this article on the site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
What they really mean – using just one Easter weekend example – is: Our algorithm copied the entire contents of a 2014 Telluride Film Festival review of the documentary Seymour: An Introduction by Variety chief film critic Justin Chang, changed barely a word, and re-posted it as our own.
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