Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited.
Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison:
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.
Blocking archives risks harming the public record.
Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham explains why these concerns are unfounded.
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The United States government should not attempt to hide the truth about its past, or even worse, rewrite history, but when it does, it’s up to the citizenry to preserve the real facts.
Transparency and accountability are necessary foundations for a functioning democracy.
Oh hey @archive.org
just got a shout out from Musk on the stand (when he was saying anyone can go see the founding document/posts from OpenAI)
“Compare any two captures of [URL] from our collection of [x] dating from [y] to [z].”
This is great to know about. Now I just need to figure out what to click to do the comparison.
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Mark Graham
Internet Archive
UPDATE: DOJ has restored the doc showing 4 FBI formal interviews with the Trump accuser, which I reported accurately was taken down. (We still don't have access to 3 of the interviews.)
Link: justice.gov/epstein/file...
Proof the link was down earlier today: web.archive.org/web/20260219...
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Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
