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Press Gazette $11m BuzzFeed Lawsuit Report Documents CEN Taking The Allegations To Court

This archived screenshot preserves Dominic Ponsford’s Press Gazette report “News agency boss sues BuzzFeed for $11m over ‘King of Bullsht News’”, published after Michael Leidig and CEN issued legal proceedings in New York over BuzzFeed’s article. The item is significant because it marks the point at which the dispute moved beyond complaint, rebuttal and reputational damage into formal litigation, with CEN arguing that BuzzFeed’s allegations of fabricated stories and fake quotes had caused serious harm to the business. The screenshot matters in the wider evidence chain because Press Gazette was one of the few industry publications to report the dispute in a way that gave CEN’s position space alongside BuzzFeed’s response. It helps document both the scale of the damage being alleged and the difficulty of correcting a narrative once BuzzFeed’s “King of Bullsht News” framing had entered the media record.

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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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