This November 2015 email chain shows the editor of a regional Russian news site contacting Alan White months after BuzzFeed’s CEN article to complain that CEN was allegedly using the site’s material, quotes and pictures without permission. The editor says they had contacted UK publishers about credit corrections, claims CEN removed logos or cropped pictures, and offers to share a recorded phone conversation with Mike Leidig. White responds warmly, says he would be happy to meet for coffee because they have “plenty to discuss”, sends BuzzFeed’s CEN article, and asks whether CEN was “selling on pictures taken by your photographers along with your copy”. The document is significant because it shows BuzzFeed continuing to cultivate post-publication sources against CEN and treating later complaints as possible reinforcement of the original narrative. It also contains Leidig’s reply, in which he denies that CEN was taking stories from the site, says CEN had Russian journalists on its team, argues that no publication has exclusive rights over a geographic “patch”, and invites either court action or an amicable solution. The value of the document is therefore not that it proves the allegations, but that it records another post-publication attempt to feed material into the BuzzFeed/CEN narrative, with White encouraging the source and steering the exchange towards the idea that CEN was reselling both copy and photographs.