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BuzzFeed Tracks Deleted Articles After Polish CEN Debunk

This 27 April 2015 email chain continues BuzzFeed’s post-publication follow-up on the Polish story raised by Tomasz Oryński. Tom Phillips tells colleagues that “Tomasz’s story checks out so far” and notes that there was a PCC case against HuffPost, resolved when the publication printed a correction that specifically blamed CEN. Phillips also says HuffPost had “completely deep sixed” the article, with nothing remaining at the URL and even the Wayback Machine apparently scrubbed, while the Mail had also deleted its article but still had a version available on the Wayback Machine. Luke Lewis replies that BuzzFeed should “keep record of all the articles that get deleted without explanation” because it “would make good follow-up”, and Alan White adds that there was a Mail correction too. The document is significant because it shows BuzzFeed moving from Oryński’s original contact into a broader post-publication strategy of tracking deletions, corrections and vanished articles as possible follow-up material. It also shows BuzzFeed treating the Polish story as checking out on the basis of the PCC/HuffPost correction and disappearing URLs, while still working from a debunk that had already been substantially written by Oryński and concerned material already addressed through earlier complaint processes. [Needs citation: later court/context material confirmed that the original Polish newspaper source story had itself disappeared and that the original publisher no longer commented on it.]

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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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