Buzzfeed staffer who claimed Pentagon sources threatened to kill Snowden is fired for dishonesty

Benny Johnson, a former writer at Glenn Beck’s the Blaze, has been fired from Buzzfeed for 41 instances of plagiarism. In an apology note published on Buzzfeed, editor Ben Smith wrote: We owe you, our readers, an apology. This plagiarism is a breach of our fundamental responsibility to be honest with you -- in this case, about who wrote the words on our site. Plagiarism, much less copying unchecked […]