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Internet Historian

Internet Historian and Wendigoon mark the limit of the documentary register before it slides into entertainment-narrative1. Internet Historian was criticized for plagiarism and fabricated detail2.

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Internet Historian and Wendigoon mark the limit of the documentary register before it slides into entertainment-narrative

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“Internet Historian and Wendigoon mark the *limit* of the documentary register before it slides into entertainment-narrative.”
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Internet Historian was criticized for plagiarism and fabricated detail

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“Internet Historian was also publicly criticized for plagiarism and fabricated detail in 2023”
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"Internet Historian was publicly criticized for plagiarism and fabricated detail in 2023"
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Disputed
"the documentary type is the discipline of journalism delivered with structural and prose ambitions"
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public criticism of Internet Historian