This 12 April 2015 email chain shows Alan White, Luke Lewis, Tom Phillips, Craig Silverman and Heidi Blake discussing BuzzFeed’s planned “no surprises” or front-up letter to Mike Leidig shortly before publication of the CEN article. The document is significant because White says Silverman, Phillips and Blake had reviewed the draft for anything that “could be alleged to be defamatory”, while also stressing that BuzzFeed must screenshot “EVERYTHING” because MailOnline, the Mirror or others might update or amend material once warned. White repeatedly raises the need to fact-check again, asking whether BuzzFeed had “anything at all even TINY bit wrong” and whether there was “anything more” it could do to verify the source of copy where verification was missing. The chain is especially important because White makes clear that he does not intend to travel to Vienna to confront Leidig in person, writing: “Purely personal safety. We’re telling him we’re about to destroy a business that took him over a decade to build, along with his entire professional credibility.” That wording records BuzzFeed’s own awareness of the seriousness, defamatory risk and likely business consequences of the article, while the wider chain still shows unresolved verification concerns and reliance on a remote front-up process rather than direct source confrontation or further original reporting. It should be read alongside the “easy bit”, verification-gap and right-to-reply documents, because it helps document the gap between BuzzFeed’s recognition of the damage the story could cause and the limited evidence-gathering process behind the final published claims.