My Menuism Article Gone Wrong--Internet Pirates Turn "Solving The Broccoli Beef Mystery" into "Fixing The Broccoli Beef Thriller"
A year and half ago I wrote an article for Menuism called "Solving The Broccoli Beef Mystery" which explained the origins of this dish which did not fall neatly into the timeline of the evolution of Chinese American food. Imagine my surprise a few months later when much of that article showed up on the internet under the title “Fixing the Broccoli Beef Thriller “ by some dude named Sanghi. It was actually one of several articles I wrote for the Menuism website that were been pirated by a fake news site called Newspaper 11, operating on the softgst.com domain. In turn, several other websites picked up that article verbatim. Most of them have since fallen off the internet, but at this writing there is this one remaining online with that article. Over time, I've discovered fake newspaper sites are common and typically reproduce copyrighted content from top newspapers and magazines, but deleting any reference to the source and changing the name of the author.