First of all, it's not the case here. There was use of AI to spin the articles.
Now there are 2 ways of reporting news. You can read the info from different sources, then close them all, and write it from your head. Or you can start copying parts of existing news, change words, change order of phrases and paragraphs, just to make it look different. The first option will most likely pass any plagiarism test, the second won't.
Not to say that if you search in Google for any news you will get 4-5 articles more or less the same content, but no one calls each other spin or plagiarism (and yes money is involved there with ads and subscribers)
How do you know someone didn't call one of them plagiarism? How do you know someone didn't email the news office to complain about it?
Some corporations might find it OK to pay for plagiarism, but afaik on Hive it is frowned upon. If the rules here have changed, then it's fine! π€·ββ
I'm doing a general discussion, not on this specific user case
That seems a fair content for me, for any platform, being it hive, Facebook or whatever else
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/05/driver-ploughs-into-crowd-french-holiday-island/
https://www.unionesarda.it/en/world/france-man-hits-pedestrians-with-car-and-shouts-quot-allahu-akbarquot-at-least-four-seriously-injured-yverfzt9
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417330
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/france-car-ramming-crowd-10-people-injured
https://www.ladbible.com/news/man-ploughs-car-pedestrians-french-island-ile-doleron-506701-20251105
And the list is endless, more or less same content, no one sue each other, because if you report facts that's it, you can't change them π
How can you be so sure no one sued each other? Maybe someone did and it's not going to be written in the article.
We could check one by one those links to see if the journalist wrote from his own head or paraphrased another article. Have you tried to read and find common phrases and text structure on all of them?
Let me bring you another situation.
Imagine a class with 100 students in a university. The professor assigns them a work to write an article with a certain subject. All 100 articles are talking about the same subject and somehow will look similar. But what if one student decided to paraphrase the sources given in class? Do you think the professor will notice? Or another situation, what if a student decided to take another students work and paraphrase it, do you think the professor will notice the similarities in both articles? What would the professor do?
Again, depends on the subject, if the task is on a historic event, most likely all work will be very similar... If it's the demonstration of a theorem, they will all be exactly the same. I did math tests on university, it was requested to write theorems, what you think it was written besides copy paste of the book?
If it's to solve a mathematic problem, or a programming problem, I can copy the work of someone else and slight change the passages, professor can't notice since the solution is one unique with forced steps
So not a great example
I'm sure you understood what I meant. Math is not subjective to opinions. I can't say that I think 2 + 2 can be 5.