What Happens if You Plagiarize?

You get fired:

Excerpt:

BuzzFeed fires political editor Benny Johnson for plagiarism 

The social news site’s first ‘viral politics editor’ gets the boot. Internal review finds 41 cases of plagiarizing, including lifting Yahoo! Answers.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/buzzfeed-fires-political-editor-plagiarism-article-1.1881022#ixzz38blGeZ5e

  An internal review found 41 instances of Johnson lifting “sentences or phrases copied word for word from other sites,” Smith wrote.
Accusations of plagiarism surfaced earlier in the week when Twitter posts accused the political editor of stealing the work of other writers and lifting paragraphs from websites including Yahoo! Answers.