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Michael Leidig Wikipedia Version I Shows Fuller Career Record Before Suspected BuzzFeed-Related Editing

This archived screenshot preserves an earlier version of the Michael Leidig Wikipedia page, believed to predate later edits connected to the BuzzFeed/CEN dispute. The page presents a broader career-focused biography, including Leidig’s move to Austria, work with ORF, founding of CEN, Austrian Times and other agency/news projects, book work, Journalism Without Borders, campaigning journalism and libel history. The item is significant because it provides a comparison point for assessing how the public record later changed after BuzzFeed’s allegations became central to the online narrative around CEN. It matters because Wikipedia can heavily influence search results, journalistic background checks and reader assumptions, and this version shows a more rounded profile before the page appears to have been narrowed towards the BuzzFeed dispute and reputational allegations.

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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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