This document is a 19–20 January 2015 BuzzFeed email exchange with the subject “Would you like to help with project”, in which Alan White asks Tanya Chen for help checking Chinese stories being examined as part of the CEN investigation. It records White saying he was working on “a big project about fake viral news” with Tom Phillips, that much of the material “seems to come from China specifically from news agency called CEN”, and that he thought CEN got many stories from Weibo but did not think many were true, while also admitting that “not speaking Chinese” made it hard to trace original sources or contact people who could confirm them. It also records Tanya saying she only spoke Mandarin at “5th grade proficiency”, could recognise a few characters but probably could not translate written text, and later reporting that she could not find original sources for the KFC story, while the mistress-attack story looked “a little more believable” because it appeared to match a Chinese broadcast. It is relevant because it shows BuzzFeed treating Chinese CEN-linked stories as suspicious before it had the language capacity or original-source reporting needed to check them properly, and trying to fill that gap through internal staff and family contacts rather than by beginning with direct reporting from the people, places or sources involved.