Is this Mothership article about an influencer promoting durian investments an attempt at deliberate plagiarism or just an ignorant mistake?
More specifically, let's talk about whether large editorial publishing houses have the right to take a story that first broke in a small-time blogger's website without proper crediting where it is due.
My first thought when I read it: HEY this looks suspiciously like MY article!
*looks around for proper source crediting to SG Budget Babe. Finds none.*
Let's start from the very beginning.
On 19 April 2018, I first wrote about local lifestyle influencer @pxdkitty activities in promoting and recruiting her followers into making monetary investments into durian seedlings with a Malaysian company. My key message was that one should not be too quick to trust and put in money into any investment schemes recommended by influencers, whether it is lifestyle influencers OR even SG Budget Babe aka ......