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Chris King Tweet Flags HuffPost Camel-Divorce Story As “Central European News At It Again”

This Source Library item is a screenshot of a tweet by Chris King, posted on 9 March 2015, linking to the HuffPost UK article about a Saudi man allegedly divorcing his wife because she was “in love with a camel”. The visible tweet says: “Central European News at it again:” followed by the HuffPost link. The screenshot is significant because it shows the camel-divorce story being publicly identified with CEN before BuzzFeed’s article was published, and helps document the wider online atmosphere in which CEN stories were being criticised, mocked or treated with suspicion by media observers and social-media users. Read together with the HuffPost screenshot and the related BuzzFeed disclosure documents BuzzFeed_001598 and BuzzFeed_001796, it helps show the chain from public publication of an offbeat CEN-linked story, through social-media commentary, into the wider BuzzFeed/CEN evidential record. The item is not itself proof that the underlying story was false; its value is as a contemporaneous public reaction showing how CEN’s name was being attached to disputed or unusual viral stories before the BuzzFeed investigation appeared.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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CENCentral European NewsMike LeidigBuzzFeedChris KingTwitterXHuffPostHuffPost UKSaudi Arabiacamel divorce storySaudi man divorces wifeweird newsviral newsagency journalismoffbeat newssocial media reactionpublic criticismmedia commentaryweb screenshotBuzzFeed_001598BuzzFeed_0017969 March 2015

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