This 17 April 2015 email chain shows Craig Silverman and Alan White trying to use Juliane Leopold, founding editor of BuzzFeed Deutschland, to help with Austrian-language checks around Helfen Wir and Journalists Without Borders shortly before publication of the CEN article. White says they had been working on the investigation “for months” and needed “a little bit of help from a German speaker”, while Silverman explains that calling Austria in English was not working. Leopold tries phone numbers, reports that one is invalid, notes that the Facebook page looks outdated, and says she will try again later. Silverman then sends detailed questions about the charity arrangement, donations, licensing, trust, and whether anyone had met the intended recipients. The document is significant because it shows BuzzFeed again relying on someone inside the company to do local-language verification work that needed time, context and probably proper freelance support. The chain records attempts and uncertainty, but not a completed source-level verification exercise. [Needs citation to the “easy bit” email: this should be cross-referenced with the document showing BuzzFeed’s attitude that verification at source was the “easy bit”, because this chain shows the practical opposite.]