TikTok influencer and General Paper (GP) tutor Brooke Lim, 19, has apologised for plagiarism in a blog essay. The allegations were posted in a Google document and publicised on TikTok last week under the account @sugaresqueessay. According to the...
Ms Lim subsequently apologised in a TikTok video on Monday.
The tutor, who says she received death threats on social media following the incident, said in a statement to The Straits Times: “I take full responsibility for my recent mistake of plagiarising a segment in a personal blog post written in a personal capacity. “The essay was not for profit, academic assignment, or publication, and I apologise to my followers, students, readers and the authors of the works I plagiarised from. I have since taken down the essay and am open to any suggestions on how to make things right.”
She also posted another video on the same day, refuting allegations by Ms Jiabao Ge – who shares GP tips on social media under the handle @gejiabao – that she had copied Ms Ge’s ideas and content. Meanwhile, a petition to the University of California, Los Angeles, to review Ms Lim’s admissions essay for plagiarism has garnered almost 700 signatures.
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