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Bookseller Tom Phillips Lies Book Article Shows BuzzFeed CEN Reporter Later Building A Career Around Truth And Deception

This archived screenshot preserves The Bookseller article “Wildfire to publish ‘history of lies’ by Humans author Tom Phillips”, reporting that Phillips, by then editor of Full Fact, had written Truth: A Brief History of Lies, Deception and Total Bullsh*t. The item is significant because Phillips was one of the key BuzzFeed figures involved in the CEN allegations, yet later became publicly associated with fact-checking, truth, lies and misinformation as a professional brand. The screenshot matters in the wider CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because it highlights the contrast between Phillips’s later authority as a writer and fact-checking figure and his earlier role in a BuzzFeed investigation that CEN argues was itself built on weak assumptions, “truthiness” ratings, anti-tabloid hostility and inadequate original reporting. Read alongside the Full Fact comments, Tom Phillips/MailOnline material and wider BuzzFeed/CEN evidence, this item helps document how figures involved in the CEN story later moved into roles where truth, deception and media trust were central to their public credibility.

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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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