BuzzFeed, it seems, is on the World Health Organization’s blacklist.

The New York news organization found out the hard way on Wednesday when a WHO staffer mistakenly included a BuzzFeed reporter on an internal email.

The reporter, Tasneem Nashrulla, sent an email on Tuesday to WHO Communications Officer Laura Bellinger asking why she hadn’t been added to the health organization’s Ebola situation report distribution list.

The self-described “journalism lover, media friend” forwarded the reporter’s email to her colleagues, adding, “Fyi — I did not respond.”

In a second e-mail, the WHO staffer writes, “My understanding is that BuzzFeed is banned.”

An hour later, a second WHO communications staffer jumps in to the thread to tell the BuzzFeed reporter — still cc’d on the emails — why his media organization is blacklisted from covering Ebola.

Explaining that Bellinger is “new to the team,” WHO’s Tarik Jasarevic says the problem is not with BuzzFeed, per say, but its reporter, Jina Moore, “who on two occasions reported inaccurately.”

Moore is BuzzFeed’s Nairobi-based global women’s rights reporter who’s reported extensively on the virus’s deadly grip on the African continent.

“[Moore] has done some of the most incredible reporting on Ebola, the fact that WHO doesn’t like it is no reason not to talk to us,” BuzzFeed editor Miriam Elder said on Twitter, defending the reporter. “You’d think that getting the word out about Ebola would be a priority for the WHO press office,” she added.

You’d think that getting the word out about Ebola would be a priority for the WHO press office @cfeig.

— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) November 13, 2014

BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith added on Twitter: “When you’re trying to secretly blacklist a great reporter, maybe don’t cc her colleague by accident.”

When you’re trying to secretly blacklist a great reporter, maybe don’t cc her colleague by accident https://t.co/e2Y86StUXS

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) November 13, 2014

WHO did not respond to Mashable’s attempts to reach them for a statement. We’ll update if and when we hear back. BuzzFeed’s Smith, reached over email, simply stated: “I think we’ve said our piece.”

There have been more than 14,000 reported cases of Ebola, with 5,160 reported deaths, according to WHO’s latest situational report, issued Nov. 12.

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