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Companies House Appointment Record Shows BuzzFeed UK’s Corporate Link To BuzzFeed Inc CFO

This Companies House filing records the appointment of Mark Frackt as a director of BuzzFeed UK Limited, with the document identifying his occupation as CFO of BuzzFeed Inc and giving an appointment date of 5 December 2012. The item is significant because it helps document the corporate structure and senior US involvement behind BuzzFeed’s UK operation before the later CEN investigation. It matters in the wider evidence chain because BuzzFeed UK was not simply an isolated British editorial start-up, but part of the wider BuzzFeed Inc business operation, with senior corporate figures formally connected to the UK company from its early development. Read alongside the Campaign/BuzzFeed expansion material, the native-advertising sources and the CEN/BuzzFeed correspondence, this filing helps show the commercial and organisational framework within which BuzzFeed UK was built, funded and directed.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Miscellaneous Documents

United Kingdom Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 14:03 Source: 16 July 2016

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