US EditionPrinceton student newspaper reports plagiarism concerns involving Pete Hegseth
- On April 30, 2025, Princeton’s student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, accused U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of plagiarism in his 2003 senior thesis.
- The allegations arise from the identification of eight specific sections in the thesis that involved unattributed content, inadequate paraphrasing, and direct copying, as determined by plagiarism detection tools and validated by a panel of three academic integrity specialists.
- Experts agreed that the thesis breached Princeton's academic honesty standards, but they held varying views on the severity of these breaches, with approximately half of the incidents identified by James M. Lang as serious plagiarism.
- Hegseth's spokesman called the story a distraction from the Department of Defense's achievements under Trump and Hegseth, noting no definitive evidence of deliberate plagiarism was found.
- The report raises questions about Hegseth’s academic conduct amid broader controversies during his tenure, but no formal charges or sanctions related to the thesis have been announced.
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