Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving

Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving

In January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed that these decisions, including a “hard block” by the Times that started late last year, were driven by publishers’ concern that the Internet Archive’s free library of webpage snapshots could be scraped by AI companies to train their commercial models…

30-year-old Internet archive could become obsolete as New York Times, Reddit block content

A number of news platforms have restricted the Wayback Machine — a crucial tool that helps preserve content from expired web domains — from archiving their stories, raising concerns about what this may mean to efforts to preserve history.  Major outlets like USA Today, Reddit, and the New York Times have explicitly prevented their content from being archived, Wired reported.  The Internet Archive has been around for 30 years and has archived ove…

The internet’s most powerful archiving tool is in peril

Read the full story in Wired. 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.