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They include several by stars such as Adam Saleh whose channel has four million subscribers, and British gamer JMX who has two and a half million subscribers.
BBC uncovers more than 250 YouTubers promoting academic cheating
It is part of the company, 13 Technology in Bulgaria. They are also talked about online as being affiliated with Boosta LTD which owns Edusson as nicely. The content is plagiarism-free, as they realize the accountability that a student is placing on them by outsourcing such necessary tasks. Many universities take copying and plagiarism pretty seriously, and they do not allow the student to proceed if discovered copying from wherever on the web. That is why EduBirdie focuses on creating its content material from scratch and principally creating plagiarism-free content. They work transparently and clearly and have offered a worth calculator on their web site to calculate the worth of the content you want to order.
Besides the international version aimed at the US market, the platform is available in its local variations in the UK and Canada. It provides students with writing samples and research assistance to help them perfect their essay writing skills. Furthermore, EduBirdie does not tolerate plagiarism. [2]
A Department for Education spokesperson said: “We have been clear that these services are a black market for students, they exploit vulnerable young people and attempt to undermine the quality of our degrees.
Some YouTube personalities as young as 12 were being paid to personally endorse EduBirdie’s services. in some of the videos, the YouTube personality has suggested to have a “super smart nerd” to the work, according to BBC.
Purchasing ghost-written essays is not illegal and does not pose plagiarism risks since it is brand-new content. But, it does raise questions about academic fraud, since students submit them as their own work.
About 30 of the channels promoting EduBirdie are from Britain and Ireland.
YouTube will also begin working with content creators “so they better understand” that video promotions must not promote dishonest activity, according to the statement.
The company is not just aiming to capture the attention of university students with its advertising.
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YouTube said it would help creators understand they cannot promote dishonest behaviour.
They include a student vlogger at a top UK university.
More than 250 channels are promoting EduBirdie, based in Ukraine, which allows students to buy essays, rather than doing the work themselves.
In a statement Facebook thanked the BBC and said: “We don’t allow pages and ads which promote academic cheating on Facebook.” It urged users to report accounts or content that breached its rules.
A YouTube spokesman told the BBC: “YouTube creators may include paid endorsements as part of their content only if the product or service they are endorsing complies with our advertising policies. We do not allow ads for essay writing and so paid promotions of these services will be removed when we discover them.”
Some YouTubers suggest that using the service will free up time to play video games or take drugs.
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In a statement to BBC, the company said, that it “cannot be held responsible for what social influencers say on their channels.”
The channel told the BBC that its promotion of EduBirdie in four videos had been “a mistake”.
Around a fifth of them were also promoting the company before May.
More than 250 channels are promoting EduBirdie, based in Ukraine, which allows students to buy essays, rather than doing the work themselves.
The BBC Trending investigation uncovered more than 1,400 videos with a total of more than 700 million views containing EduBirdie adverts selling cheating to students and school pupils.
So if a student submits an EduBirdie essay as their own work, it might not be detected by anti-cheating software.
‘What’s wrong with that’
“We released hundreds of video like that,” a company representative wrote.
However it also claims the essays are “100% plagiarism free” meaning should a student submit it as their own work, it is less likely to be detected by anti-cheating software.
A representative for EduBirdie did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Following the BBC’s investigation, YouTube notified influencers to say that it would take down videos that didn’t comply with its policies. The BBC noted that that selling the papers isn’t illegal, but YouTube says that while creators can include paid advertisements in their videos, they can only do so if said promotion complies with its policies. This is where the influencers ran into trouble: promoting so-called “Academic Aids” defined as test-taking and academic paper-writing services are prohibited, resulting in the removal of a number of videos. The BBC noted that some channels had over a hundred videos removed.
He then urges viewers to buy EduBirdie essays. “You don’t even have to write it, you could just sit and wait for them to finish,” he says.
In a statement, he told the BBC: “Whether a student wants to cheat or not it’s totally their choice. You can’t really blame EduBirdie or creators who promote them because everyone’s got their own hustle.”
In a statement it said: “We cannot be held responsible for what social influencers say on their channels.
In a statement to the BBC, EduBirdie parent company Boosta says that it gave “influencers total freedom on how they prefer to present the EduBirdie platform to their audience in a way they feel would be most relevant to their viewers.”
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The union’s vice president for education, Adedoyinsola Adebanjo, said this year that several Coventry students were blackmailed for up to £5,000 after using an essay-writing service.
Nick Turgeon, an 18-year-old YouTuber based in the UK, was sponsored by EduBirdie to make two slime videos that appeal to young children.
In 2017, QAA published guidelines on how to tackle essay mills following TEQSA, Australia’s HE standards agency, releasing a document to address students using paid third-parties to complete assessments.
Google has been allowing essay mills to buy advertising space on search results pages, even though its own polices specifically ban the promotion of this type of company.
“We give influencers total freedom on how they prefer to present the EduBirdie platform to their audience in a way they feel would be most relevant to their viewers.
The BBC Trending investigation has found 13 other essay sites – some owned by Boosta, the parent company of EduBirdie – which have been using social media stars to promote their services.
A 12-year-old who had promoted EduBirdie to his 200,000 followers also took the video down after BBC approached his mother.
After numerous spelling-related accusations on Twitter, EduBirdie offered to proofread Donald Trump’s tweets free of charge to prevent grammatical mistakes. [4]
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EduBirdie was developed by Boosta, which operates a number of essay-writing websites.
Sam Gyimah said that EduBirdie’s marketing was shocking and pernicious as it presented cheating as “a lifestyle choice”.
The GCSE essay was given a C or 5/6 and the university assignment 60% – not quite the guaranteed A+ grade promised by EduBirdie.
Known as contract cheating, essay writing services are not illegal, but if students are discovered submitting work they have paid for someone else to do the penalties can be as severe as expulsion.
“Why would you want to do your own work?” asks US star Edwin Burgos, in one of several Snapchat ads in which he encourages viewers to swipe up to load the EduBirdie website.
Some ads urged A-level students to use Facebook Messenger place an order to get their assignments written for them in less than five hours.
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Boosta added that there is a disclaimer on the EduBirdie site that suggests the work it provides should only be used as a sample or reference.
The Students Union at Coventry University has been campaigning with the slogan #DefeatTheCheat to raise awareness about academic cheating among fellow students.
EduBirdie is run by a company called Boosta, which operates a number of essay-writing websites.
While essay-writing services are not illegal, using them to cheat can result in students facing severe penalties – from being zero graded to being thrown out of university.
A disclaimer on the EduBirdie website suggests that the work it provides should only be used as a sample or a reference.
“It’s morally wrong, and I’m not sad they’ve been deleted. I think it was awful they asked me, not knowing their intention, to promote them to such a young and gullible audience,” he says.
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2019-cu ildə EduBirdie təklif etdi korrektə Prezident Trump-ın tweetləri, qrammatik səhvləri səbəbiylə pulsuz Tvitlər. [9] [10]
He said he was shocked by the nature and scale of the videos: “It’s clearly wrong because it is enabling and normalising cheating potentially on an industrial scale.”
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“It’s crazy to me that so many YouTubers have already promoted this company. Not only is it morally wrong, it can get your audience in serious trouble with university and it can even get the YouTuber in trouble by YouTube taking down their video.”
Last week, the BBC published an investigation which found that more than 250 channels had promoted a Ukranian company called EduBirdie, which sells essays to desperate students. The company says that its services are useful for “research into the subject, generating initial input for for further reasoning and citations. paraphrasing in accordance with major educational standards as well as tailored to your college / university guidelines for plagiarism.” It sponsored hundreds of YouTube channels, who told their viewers that it was a an easy and cheap way to pass their classes. In this instance, the BBC found that the videos containing the endorsements were viewed more than 700 million times.
In one recent video, Asiegbu lifts his sweatshirt to reveal an EduBirdie T-shirt before he and B Lou recommend that students use the company.