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Jack Werner Tweet Shows Anti-Rival Framing Behind His Role As BuzzFeed’s Fake-News Witness

This archived screenshot preserves a 25 June 2015 X/Twitter post by Jack Werner comparing Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet’s treatment of an Obama heckling story with BuzzFeed’s version, telling Aftonbladet that it could “make that news” but could also “do as BuzzFeed and actually tell what happened”. The screenshot is significant because it helps document Werner’s public posture as a media critic and activist-style debunker with an axe to grind against rival publishers, rather than as a detached conventional reporter. The item matters in the wider CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because Werner later became one of BuzzFeed’s key defence witnesses, while the book describes him as a figure whose career had been built around debunking, media literacy, online myths and fake news rather than ordinary reporting. Read alongside the wider Werner material, this tweet helps show the culture of public media-correction activism from which BuzzFeed drew support when building and defending its CEN narrative, and why such sources should be assessed not only for expertise but also for prior campaigning instincts, rivalries and assumptions about the outlets they criticised.

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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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Jack WernerXTwitterAftonbladetBuzzFeedObamamedia criticismfake newsdebunkingmedia literacyactivist journalismrival publisherseditorial biasCENMike LeidigBuzzFeed defence witnesssource evidencearchived web screenshotlibel case evidence

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