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Alan White CEN Draft Comments On Tabloid News And Vox-Pop Certainty

This document is a 13 March 2015 BuzzFeed email with the subject “CEN Draft.docx”, recording Alan White’s comments while editing the planned CEN article. It is included in the Source Library as source/evidence material connected to the BuzzFeed/CEN case and the pre-publication development of BuzzFeed’s article. It records White describing CEN material as “typical trashy tabloid news” and also stating that it would be “near impossible” to get “cast-iron certainty” that the disputed vox-pop quotes had been made up. It is relevant because it helps document both the dismissive internal framing of CEN material and the evidential weakness behind one of the article’s core suspicions: that CEN had fabricated colourful quotes rather than translated, summarised or rewritten them in idiomatic English.

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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 NewsAlan WhiteCEN Draft13 March 2015vox popsmade-up quotestabloid newsevidential weaknessinternal framingsource evidencedisclosurefake news narrative

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