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Craig Silverman Tells Tanya Chen The CEN Draft Still Has A “Big Hole” In The Evidence Section

This 18 March 2015 email exchange shows Craig Silverman updating Tanya Chen, BuzzFeed’s senior editor in Canada, about the draft CEN article and saying there was still a “big hole” where BuzzFeed planned to fill in the details of what it had found. The document is significant because it records Silverman treating Chen as someone who had looked into parts of the material and might be asked further questions, while the disclosed exchange is heavily redacted and does not show a clear underlying verification process, source contact or competent Chinese-language review. Chen’s signature identifies her as “Senior Editor, Canada”, making the exchange relevant to Silverman’s Canadian/Emergent orbit rather than to direct reporting from China. It should be read alongside other BuzzFeed/CEN language-checking documents, because it helps document the gap between BuzzFeed’s stated need to verify Chinese-source material and the actual evidence trail showing limited, indirect and partly redacted internal checks rather than a clearly documented source-level investigation.

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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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