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March 13, 2017

News agency suing Buzzfeed applies to join press regulator IPSO to counter ‘fake news’ claims against stories

By Freddy Mayhew

A British-owned press agency in the midst of a libel battle with Buzzfeed has applied to join press regulator the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

Central European News (CEN) owner Michael Leidig said the decision to join IPSO was “a bid to counter the explosion of fake news claims currently being made online”.

The news agency is only the second to seek to join the regulator after the Press Association.

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