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Tom Phillips Full Fact Comments Show Public Concern Over BuzzFeed Background

This archived screenshot preserves a sample of Facebook comments made after Tom Phillips was announced as joining Full Fact. The item is significant because it shows that concerns about Phillips’s BuzzFeed background were not limited to CEN or Michael Leidig, but were also raised publicly by others who questioned whether a former BuzzFeed figure was a suitable appointment for a fact-checking organisation. The comments include remarks about BuzzFeed’s credibility, political agenda and media reputation, with one commenter linking to Media Bias/Fact Check’s BuzzFeed page. The screenshot matters in the wider CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because Phillips was one of the key BuzzFeed figures involved in the CEN allegations, and the reaction to his later Full Fact role helps document the reputational baggage attached to BuzzFeed’s style of journalism, activism and fact-checking claims. Read alongside the wider Tom Phillips and Jack Werner material, this item helps show why the distinction between neutral fact-checking and ideologically loaded media correction became central to the broader complaint about BuzzFeed’s treatment of CEN.

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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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