Source Library Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – BF Case DocumentsAlan White Says Quotes From Original KFC Story Look Legitimate

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Alan White Says Quotes From Original KFC Story Look Legitimate

This document is a 23 March 2015 Google Docs notification showing Alan White’s comments on BuzzFeed’s draft article about Central European News, sent to Craig Silverman while the CEN story was still being edited. 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 commenting on the KFC story, one of the original items that had helped trigger BuzzFeed’s interest in CEN, and stating: “I actually think the quotes from KFC woman are legit!” It is relevant because it helps document that, even at the draft stage, BuzzFeed’s own internal comments recognised uncertainty around a story central to the investigation, including the possibility that disputed quotes in one of the early suspicious examples were genuine rather than fabricated.

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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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