Article in FAIR by Janine Jackson 4/22/26
Headline: “The Wayback Machine Has Been the Best Archive for Preserving Our Digital Lives”
Subhead: “CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive”
“Janine Jackson: A recent report by Wired‘s Kate Knibbs leads with the contradiction: USA Today published a story recently on how ICE is misinforming about its detainment policies, a case that the paper built on data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a nonprofit digital library that preserves webpages.
“At the same time, USA Today bars the Wayback Machine from archiving its work. Along with outlets like the New York Times, the paper is trying to block the Internet Archive project from doing their job of preserving reporting. . .”
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