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Your evening longread: I tracked down my imposter
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A little shorter than normal, but this piece is quite the read. A lecturer discovers he has an imposter – who even has the same tattoos as him.
(The Guardian, approx 5 mins reading time)
In November 2017, Anna Friedman, a Chicago-based academic with a similar specialism, contacted me. She had received a like on Instagram from an account she thought was interesting. Clicking on the profile, she saw it was a duplicate of her page and that the guy had also made a copy of her website, including her very specific biography, but under his own name. When she looked at his profile on academia.edu, she instantly realised that his bio was a copy of mine; the papers he’d supposedly written were actually by me.
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