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New York Post Google Earth Story Shows Why BuzzFeed Treating Minor Age Discrepancy As Fakery Was Flawed

This archived screenshot preserves a New York Post version of the “Man uses Google Earth to track down long-lost mom” story, the real-life account of Saroo Brierley that later inspired the major film Lion. The item is significant because BuzzFeed considered using the story as possible evidence against CEN even though the apparent issue was only a three-year age discrepancy between different published versions of an otherwise accurate and remarkable human-interest story. CEN had an alternative source for the age it used, while BuzzFeed appears to have chosen to trust another media version without proving that CEN’s version was wrong. The screenshot matters in the wider evidence chain because it shows how BuzzFeed’s “truthiness” approach could turn an ordinary unresolved detail in syndicated reporting into possible evidence of fakery, while ignoring the larger reality that the story was genuine, substantially accurate, widely reported and later important enough to become a major feature film. Read alongside the CNN/BuzzFeed material, this item helps document how small inconsistencies between published versions of real stories were inflated into reputational evidence against CEN rather than treated as routine verification issues.

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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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