Bill Ackman, billionaire hedge fund manager, said that they used the Wayback Machine in order to refute allegations of plagiarism against his wife, Neri Oxman, in a long-format post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.
What Happened: Ackman said that the lawyers for the couple used the Wayback Machine, an internet archive tool, to scrutinize the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT’s plagiarism policy during Oxman’s dissertation period in 2009.
Ackman said that their research revealed that MIT did not enforce citation of Wikipedia or even acknowledge it until 2013, four years after Oxman completed her thesis.
The tweet ...