In September 2015, journalist Michael C. Moynihan wrote an article for "The Daily Beast", criticizing "ZeroZeroZero" and accusing Saviano of having used sections of text, including from Wikipedia, without citing his sources. In an article for the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica", Saviano demonstrated how the passages from "ZeroZeroZero" and the presumed sources identified by Moynihan were manipulated in order to appear similar. The English newspaper "The Guardian" reported on the controversy with an article entitled "Roberto Saviano dismisses plagiarism claims over latest book", in which Saviano says, "I'm not a journalist (or a reporter), but, rather, a writer, and I recount real facts." Saviano adds that "Interpretations and theories have a provenance, not mere facts: those belong to all, to those who recount them and to those who read them, making them their own".