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Craig Silverman Email Showing Tow And Poynter Credentials During CEN Investigation

This document is a BuzzFeed disclosure email showing Craig Silverman using a signature identifying himself as a Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and editor of Regret the Error at the Poynter Institute. It is included in the Source Library as source/evidence material connected to the BuzzFeed/CEN case and the later examination of Silverman’s role in the investigation. It records one example from a wider pattern in which Silverman contacted outside sources while presenting himself through independent verification and academic credentials, even as he was working with BuzzFeed on a story about one of its UK commercial rivals’ content suppliers. It is relevant because it helps document the possible conflict between Silverman’s public-facing verification credentials and his practical role inside the BuzzFeed investigation, including how outside contacts may have understood who they were dealing with.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – BF Case Documents

Europe Media Published 1 May 2026 at 21:09 Source: 1 November 2016

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BuzzFeedCENCentral European NewsCraig SilvermanTow CenterColumbia UniversityPoynter InstituteRegret the Errorverificationsource evidencedisclosureconflict of interestoutside sourcesfake news narrativeThe King Of Bullsh*t News

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