Pop Goes The News — A popular British media blog revised a post late Monday after it was caught plagiarizing Pop Goes The News.

A post published in the Media Guido section of order-order.com contained significant passages that were copied from a story published at PopGoesTheNews.com last Friday.

It is not known if it was Paul Staines, who blogs as Guido Fawkes, or one of his writers who plagiarized the content.

Staines’ website is operated by Global & General Nominees Limited, which is reportedly registered in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The website used original content found at Pop Goes The News for a summary of the National Enquirer report on Elton John and his Canadian husband David Furnish. It did not source the material and, in fact, claimed it was its own.

Contacted Monday about the plagiarism, someone using the Guido Fawkes email first accused Pop Goes The News of plagiarizing the Enquirer (which it did not) and then stated: “We have rewritten it.”

In fact, Media Guido merely changed a handful of words in the passages it copied.

As an example, Pop Goes The News reported: “The Enquirer reports U.K. businessman Daniel Laurence claims he had three encounters with Furnish, including one that involved ‘risky sex.'” The Media Guido version reads: “The Enquirer reports that British businessman Daniel Laurence claims he had three encounters with Furnish, including one that involved ‘risky sex.'”

Other passages were copied word-for-word.

“The two men continued to communicate online — and saw each other again at an event in Palm Springs — but did not have sex again until April 2010,” reported Pop Goes The News. “Laurence alleges the tryst took place in the London home Furnish shares with Elton John.”

Media Guido posted: “The two men continued to communicate online — and saw each other again at an event in Palm Springs — but did not have sex again until April 2010. Laurence alleges the tryst took place in the London home Furnish shares with Elton John.”

Pop Goes The News publisher JRKM has filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice with the host of Media Guido.

Late Monday, Media Guido revised the summary and included a hyperlink to the source.

In December, Canadian outlet Global News revised a story it had posted online after allegations that it plagiarized Pop Goes The News. The company insisted “there was no deliberate intent to write similar copy when relating the same facts that appeared in PopGoesTheNews.com.”

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This post has been updated since it was originally published.