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Alan White Draft Comments On BuzzFeed’s CEN Use And Fact-Checking Gaps

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 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 making further structural and evidential comments, including a proposed “complete sweep” of the site, a request for a fact-checker to take another look at one example, and wording acknowledging that BuzzFeed had bought CEN pictures and copy or followed up on CEN-sourced stories. It is relevant because it helps document that, even while the article was being shaped for publication, BuzzFeed’s own draft process still included unresolved questions about structure, fact-checking, and how to handle its own prior use of CEN material.

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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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