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BuzzFeed Draft Shows MailOnline Framing, Unresolved Comments And Planned Journalism Without Borders Digging

This draft BuzzFeed article appears to be the attachment referenced in the related Robert Colvile email saying that “Alan and Pat” had put together a CEN draft. The document is significant because it shows the CEN article in a working-draft state, with the narrative already framed around CEN as a supplier of “too-good-to-check” viral stories to major English-language publishers, including strong early emphasis on MailOnline, the Mirror, Metro, the New York Daily News and other high-traffic outlets. The draft is useful because it exposes both the developed public narrative and the unresolved internal work behind it: it includes claims about BuzzFeed and Emergent working to verify CEN stories, references to tracking images and checking Chinese material through BuzzFeed colleagues, but also visible comments, rough sections and “TK” placeholders showing that parts of the article were still incomplete or in need of further reporting. One especially important section concerns Journalism Without Borders, where a comment says there “could be like actual fraud here” and asks whether it is registered, while another note suggests using someone who can speak German to check the Austrian charity position. The draft should be read alongside the covering Colvile/Blake email and later front-up and “easy bit” documents, because it helps document how BuzzFeed’s article was being shaped around a damaging public narrative while still containing unresolved questions about source verification, charity status, German-language checking, and the relationship between CEN material, MailOnline and BuzzFeed’s own prior use of CEN-linked stories.

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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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