Benny Johnson
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Benny Arthur Johnson (born May 27, 1987) is an American political columnist currently serving as the chief creative officer at Turning Point USA, a conservative nonprofit.
Johnson first rose to fame as an editor at BuzzFeed, but it was later revealed that several of his published papers were plagiarized and he was fired.
Early life and education
Johnson grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and attended the University of Iowa. In 2009, he majored in developmental psychology.
Career
In 2010, Johnson began contributing opinion pieces to the opinion website Breitbart. He was recruited as a full-time employee for Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, a conservative media website. Johnson joined BuzzFeed in 2012 as a staff writer.
BuzzFeed found 41 instances of plagiarism in Johnson's scripts in July 2014, accounting for over ten percent of his work. He was fired from BuzzFeed later and apologised for the plagiarism. He joined National Review as the digital editor a few weeks later.
He joined the Independent Journal Review (IJR) in 2015 as a creative content contributor, a few months after being hired by National Review. Later this year, IJR workers accused Johnson of plagiarizing an article about then-House Republican Conference chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Johnson wrote an essay in late 2017 detailing the most inflammatory tweets of what he believed to be the Boston antifa Twitter account. It was a bogus account that was supposed to ridicule antifa. Initially, an editorial note was attached to the paper, but it was later removed.
After Johnson's appearance in an article that stated that Judge Derrick Watson's partial blocking of Executive Order 13780 was connected to former President Barack Obama's visit to Hawaii, Johnson was suspended by the IJR in 2017. Johnson had been warned that the IJR may possibly be supporting a conspiracy theory, but the reporter was still attached to it. Johnson was suspended for breaching IJR's corporate ethics later this year; Business Insider revealed that Johnson had been verbally offensive and pushed several employees away from the IJR due to his leadership style. In October 2017, Johnson and IJR's relationship was ended.
In November 2017, Johnson joined The Daily Caller.