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BuzzFeed Reports Daily Mail Used A Picture Of His Restaurant Steak In A Cannibalism Story

This archived screenshot preserves Tom Chivers’s BuzzFeed post dated 19 May 2015, titled “A Restaurant Owner Complained After The Daily Mail Used A Picture Of His Steak In A Cannibalism Story”, about Will Beckett complaining on Twitter after MailOnline used an image of Hawksmoor’s chateaubriand on a possibly fake story about human flesh being served in a Nigerian hotel. The screenshot is significant because it is another example of BuzzFeed UK publicly targeting MailOnline and the wider Daily Mail/MailOnline publishing culture shortly after the BuzzFeed article attacking CEN had been published. Unlike the Luke Lewis examples, the evidential point here is not a later MailOnline career link, but the broader pattern: BuzzFeed UK repeatedly used MailOnline as a target of criticism and ridicule while its CEN coverage also focused heavily on material supplied to MailOnline and other British tabloid publishers. The item helps document the media-rivalry context behind BuzzFeed’s treatment of CEN, where criticism of viral news, image use, fake-story risk and tabloid publishing standards overlapped with BuzzFeed’s wider campaign-like posture towards MailOnline.

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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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