Current Events > Someone accuses you of plagiarism in a paper. How would you respond?

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My friend recently worked on a paper for my online job. He turned it in to the client, and made sure that he cited all his sources, within the paper and within the references section. Soon after, my friend got a message, saying that he had plagiarized and needed to change the highlighted parts, shown in a newly uploaded document called "plagiarism". Some of the highlighted parts were even from quotes that he cited properly! He was then threatened with a plagiarism fine, so he fixed everything. My friend then spoke with support, and told them that there was a huge mistake and that everything was cited, explaining his side. However, support said, "We only go by the facts". What the heck? Even I'm mad about this, hearing what my friend had to deal with. Should he try and do more, or just let it go?

I had a Python programming teacher accuse me of plagiarizing some code. He said mine and another students had the same exact mistake in the same exact place so we must have copied it from somewhere.
I didn't copy it from anywhere. It went as far as I had to have a meeting with some important person at the school.
It ended up being dropped cuz the teacher couldn't prove where I plagiarized from and I was positive that I didn't. So they decided to drop it.
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jstewart01 posted...

My friend recently worked on a paper for my online job. He turned it in to the client, and made sure that he cited all his sources, within the paper and within the references section. Soon after, my friend got a message, saying that he had plagiarized and needed to change the highlighted parts, shown in a newly uploaded document called "plagiarism". Some of the highlighted parts were even from quotes that he cited properly! He was then threatened with a plagiarism fine, so he fixed everything. My friend then spoke with support, and told them that there was a huge mistake and that everything was cited, explaining his side. However, support said, "We only go by the facts". What the heck? Even I'm mad about this, hearing what my friend had to deal with. Should he try and do more, or just let it go?

Accuse them of alternative facts. Most of those anti-plagiarism tools that they run submitted papers through have a high false positive rate and must be independently verified by a qualified person before finally accusing the submitter of plagiarism. Sounds like whoever ran the plagiarism analysis is fucking lazy at their job.
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He should grow a spine and learn to respond to comments about quoted passages being plagiarized with 'piss off.'
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