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BuzzFeed Queen Gay Rights Article Shows Early BuzzFeed Criticism Of MailOnline Accuracy

This archived screenshot preserves Chris Geidner’s BuzzFeed News article “Zero Things Queen Elizabeth II Said About Gay Rights At The Charter Signing”, published on 11 March 2013. The item is significant because it is another example of BuzzFeed publicly challenging MailOnline’s reporting, this time over a claim that the Queen would back a historic pledge to promote gay rights when signing the Commonwealth Charter. BuzzFeed’s point was that the Queen’s statement was brief and did not mention LGBT rights. The screenshot matters in the wider CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because it helps document BuzzFeed’s early pattern of treating MailOnline as a target for correction and ridicule before its later attack on CEN, one of the agencies supplying MailOnline and other tabloid publishers. Read alongside the other BuzzFeed/MailOnline screenshots, this item helps show that BuzzFeed’s criticism of CEN developed against a wider background of rivalry, hostility and moral positioning towards MailOnline and the British tabloid viral-news market.

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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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