Internal BuzzFeed email chain from March 2015 showing Craig Silverman telling colleagues that he had a “confirmed debunk” of a CEN-linked story about young women allegedly stripping naked for a photo shoot, based on contact with the photographer credited in the original reports. The exchange is significant because the underlying reply appears to have been extremely limited, yet BuzzFeed editors treated it as one of the strongest examples available to them. Tom Phillips described the new debunk as “one of the most solid ones we have”, while Heidi Blake called it “brilliant” and said it was “fantastic to have it from the snapper”. The wider thread also shows BuzzFeed editors discussing the difficulty of proving that CEN supplied the actual copy used by client publications, rather than only images or material later reproduced by others. Robert Colvile warned that they needed to state clearly what evidence they had for each story, while Alan White said the “real issue” was obtaining the original CEN copy and that there was “no easy way” to do so. The document is useful as evidence of how BuzzFeed’s investigation developed internally: editors were trying to strengthen their article, identify CEN involvement, find client publication contacts, and decide how to approach Mike Leidig before publication. It also records Heidi Blake’s view that Leidig should be approached fairly and given detailed allegations in advance, including her concern that this was crucial to “copper-bottoming” BuzzFeed’s responsible journalism defence.