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Luke Lewis Targets 21 Weirdly Angry Mail Online Commenters Before Later Working For MailOnline

This archived screenshot preserves Luke Lewis’s BuzzFeed post titled “21 Weirdly Angry Mail Online Commenters”, an early BuzzFeed UK item ridiculing MailOnline’s readers and the tone of engagement around its tabloid online content. The screenshot is significant because it helps document BuzzFeed UK entering the British media market with a visible editorial appetite for attacking and mocking MailOnline, while showing Lewis personally contributing to that hostile public posture before later working for MailOnline as head of social media. The item is useful in the wider evidence chain because Lewis was head of BuzzFeed UK during the later BuzzFeed/CEN investigation, in which MailOnline’s use of CEN material formed part of the background, making the screenshot a record of the rivalry, hypocrisy and professional overlap behind BuzzFeed’s later criticism of CEN and the MailOnline-linked viral news supply chain.

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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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