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Snopes Sashimi Debunk Shows How Online Assumption Became BuzzFeed Evidence

This archived screenshot preserves the Snopes article “Did A Man Get Tapeworms From Eating Sashimi?”, which challenged a CEN-linked story about a Chinese man whose body was affected by parasites after eating raw fish. The screenshot is significant because Snopes treated the story as suspicious largely by comparing the CEN/Chinese media X-ray material with similar images from a British Medical Journal case report about disseminated cysticercosis linked to undercooked pork, even though the images were not the same and similar diseases can produce similar-looking medical scans. The item matters in the wider evidence chain because BuzzFeed later relied on the Snopes debunking without doing original reporting of its own: Alan White admitted in deposition that BuzzFeed relied on Snopes for the idea that the sashimi story had been debunked and did no further research into whether that was true or false. Read alongside the CEN source material and the BuzzFeed deposition extracts, this screenshot helps document how online debunking, image similarity, translation issues and medical assumptions were turned into evidence against CEN without direct source checks, expert verification or contact with CEN about the basis for the original report.

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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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