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Matthew Inman’s Oatmeal Response Shows BuzzFeed Target Being Forced To Dismantle A Flawed Attack

This archived screenshot preserves Matthew Inman’s own response on The Oatmeal to Jack Stuef’s BuzzFeed article “The Secrets Of The Internet’s Most Beloved Viral Marketer”. The screenshot is significant because, unlike the later Gigaom report about BuzzFeed’s partial apology, this item shows the target of the BuzzFeed piece directly rebutting the article and taking apart its claims. Inman accused BuzzFeed of relying on wrong and misleading information, including material apparently drawn from a fake social media profile, and described the article as so badly flawed that it bordered on libel. The item matters in the wider CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because it records an earlier example of a BuzzFeed article being built around a strong moralised target, only for the target to show that key parts of the framing were wrong, misleading or inadequately checked. Read alongside the Gigaom apology item, this screenshot helps document both halves of the episode: the original subject’s detailed rebuttal and the later criticism that BuzzFeed’s correction dealt with surface errors without fully acknowledging how far the story’s framing had collapsed.

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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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