Bloomberg campaign appears to have plagiarized parts of 8 campaign policies

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• Former New York City mayor and 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg appears to have copied content word-for-word from several non-profit groups and media outlets for use on his campaign plans.
• The Intercept compared Bloomberg's campaign plans to the websites of several non-profit, educational, and policy groups and found at least eight instances of plagiarism from other source material.
• A spokesperson for Bloomberg's 2020 campaign said internal drafts of the documents mentioned by The Intercept included footnotes, which did not appear in the web or emailed versions of the same information. 
• Other presidential candidates have been called out for plagiarism on campaign websites.
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Michael Bloomberg's 2020 campaign appears to have plagiarized policy plans from several non-profit groups and other websites.

The plans were on the website and in fact sheets emailed to reporters. They have since been corrected.

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