This 30 January 2015 email chain shows Alan White, Craig Silverman and Tom Phillips discussing CEN-linked “penis chopping” stories while BuzzFeed was developing its wider case against CEN. The document is significant because Silverman sends links to older CEN-linked examples in the Daily Star and The Sun, while White says he has messaged a friend at the Mail who is “going to try and think of someone on the pic desk she can trust”. That wording is important because it shows BuzzFeed actively seeking access to contacts inside rival publishers, not simply reviewing public material, in order to obtain supporting evidence or quotes for a story that would also damage those publishers’ use of CEN material. The chain also shows Tom Phillips apparently speaking to another source in a pub, with Silverman replying: “Feed him many pints and collect excellent quotes,” which underlines the extent to which BuzzFeed was looking for colourful external confirmation to give the article weight. It should be read alongside later documents involving Mail picture-desk quotes, BuzzFeed’s own CEN-use discussions, and the “industrial scale” rival-publisher strategy, because it helps document how BuzzFeed expanded the CEN story by using contacts inside or around competing media organisations while still relying heavily on online searches, third-party source tracing and external validation rather than direct original reporting from the people in the disputed stories.