Yesterday we posted on some of the drama unfolding as the
result of a blogger brand campaign for Chrysler. One of the key
players in the controversy was Kristin
Ruiz, who called on Ignite Social Media to disqualify fellow
contestant Kristine Cook
because of a post in which Kristine jokingly encourages her readers to
vote from multiple computers. It seems that Ruiz herself is now on the
other end of cheating accusations, but for reasons that are a bit more
clear than questionable contest rules. It was recently discovered that
Ruiz, who writes her own blog in addition to writing a pregnancy column
for Babble, has been plagiarizing posts that popular blogger Amy Storch (@Amalah) had
written at the Alpha Mom
site.
Still defending herself against allegations of contest bullying, Lesney-Ruiz is accused of
lifting content published in 2008 on the Alpha Mom website for
publication on her own site Our Ordinary Life. After being hired earlier
this year by blogging powerhouse Babble as a featured writer, Lesney-Ruiz was said to
have re-posted three of these same posts. Lesney-Ruiz’s assignment at
Babble was quite similar to the weekly posts Storch wrote for
Alphamom’s pregnancy timeline. Allegations flew Monday morning when a
fan of Amalah.com noticed a striking similarity to one of Lesney-Ruiz’s
posts and forwarded it on to Storch. Upon further review, Storch
ascertained that a few of Lesney-Ruiz’s posts were actually posts that
she had written and published years before. Storch addressed the matter in
an open letter this morning, stating:
The writing you stole was
written about my second pregnancy. It is all very near and dear to
me, and I am fiercely protective of it, as I’m sure you understand.
What you did was like someone swiping your belly pics and was passing
them off as their own: creepy, invasive and wrong. I imagine if that
happened to you, you would waste no time in leading an Internet charge
against that person, no matter what excuses they offered.
According to Babble staff, Lesney-Ruiz was immediately fired from
Babble, and all posts in question were removed. ShePosts was able to
obtain screen shots of a few of the posts in question. From Kristin’s
personal site:
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