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Heidi Blake Comments On CEN Redraft Including “Delete False Or At Least”

This document is a 26 March 2015 Google Docs notification showing Heidi Blake adding comments to BuzzFeed’s “CEN redraft” and sending those comment updates to Robert Colvile. 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 Blake making direct editorial comments on the draft, including one visible instruction reading “Delete false or at least”, alongside other add/delete comments. It is relevant because it helps document Blake’s active involvement in the redrafting process and shows that, shortly before publication, BuzzFeed editors were still making substantive wording decisions around whether and how to use terms such as “false” in the case being built against CEN.

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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 NewsHeidi BlakeRobert ColvileCEN redraft26 March 2015Google Docsdraft commentsfalse storieswording changeseditorial processpre-publication developmentsource evidencedisclosurefake news narrative

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