BuzzFeed Receives Post-Publication Leads From Sunday Times Reporter And Polish Lorry Driver

This 26 April 2015 email chain shows BuzzFeed receiving and circulating further leads immediately after publication of its CEN article. Alan White tells Craig Silverman that an “EU reporter for Sunday Times” wanted a call and “has things to say”. Separately, Craig Silverman says he had heard from someone who had briefly worked with CEN and claimed to have more information. The document does not establish whether these references concern the same person or two different contacts. The chain also forwards a message from Tomasz Oryński, a Polish lorry driver, who offers support to BuzzFeed and says he could testify or put BuzzFeed in touch with people connected to a disputed Polish story. The significance of the Sunday Times reference is limited but useful: BuzzFeed clearly had an appetite for sources that might support its narrative, yet this particular lead does not appear, from the available material, to have produced any published follow-up or useful evidence that materially advanced the case. The document is therefore best read as part of the immediate post-publication lead-gathering phase, when BuzzFeed was collecting supportive contacts and possible witnesses, rather than as proof that those leads ultimately substantiated the published allegations.

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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