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Craig Silverman Edits Draft To Address CEN Copy Proof Gap

This document is a 16 March 2015 Google Docs notification showing Craig Silverman replying to Alan White’s earlier comment on BuzzFeed’s draft article about Central European News. 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 Silverman saying he had edited the section to address White’s concern that BuzzFeed had not obtained the pictures and accompanying CEN copy for the example being discussed, and therefore had to rely on assumption when connecting some downstream tabloid versions to CEN. It is relevant because it helps document that, rather than resolving the evidential gap by obtaining the original CEN material, BuzzFeed was still revising wording around uncertainty over whether particular stories had come from CEN copy, CEN pictures, or inferred syndication links. The material shows BuzzFeed was preparing a serious allegation while still wrestling with a basic source-chain problem: did the downstream tabloid stories actually come from CEN copy, or could some have come only from CEN pictures or another syndication route? That matters because the allegation depends on proving not just that CEN images were present, but that the disputed wording, quotes or details were actually supplied by 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 NewsCraig SilvermanAlan WhiteCEN Draft16 March 2015Google Docstabloid storiesCEN copyCEN picturesproof gapassumptiondraft commentspre-publication developmentsource evidencedisclosurefake news narrative

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