"You can't even play devils advocate on this one." Very insightful comment. I don't think they should delete it at this point though which would be covering up

"You can't even play devils advocate on this one." Very insightful comment. I don't think they should delete it at this point though which would be covering up what they did at this point. As far as what to do about this, word for word plagiarism that is barely altered so that it's technically not an exact word search isn't a mistake or momentary slip up by a paid author/journalist/blogger, it's overt plagiarism and fraud. There is absolutely no other thing to be done when it is found but to openly and publicly FIRE the fake "author" who stole another person's work, and issue a public apology to the true author. That would have resolved it and enabled this company to save face and appear on the up and up. The handling by the CEO was so abysmal and so wrong here though that it destroyed the entire reputation of the site. His continuing to trying to spin and lie is just an embarrassment to himself, his reputation is ruined. As far as whoever owns this company, at this point the only thing they could possibly do to recover at all is to fire both the CEO and the plagiarist and issue a public, heartfelt, sincere apology.