2016-09-11: Web Archiving in Popular Media
@jefferson_bail perhaps a panel idea for the @NetPreserve WAC? “2016: The Year Politics Drove People to Finally Use Web Archives" — Abbie Grotke (@agrotke) August 11, 2016 At the Old Dominion University Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group we have been studying web archiving for a long time. In the past few years, we have noticed a significant uptick in the use of web archives in mainstream media, both to support stories and as the subject. This post presents articles from the popular media that use web archive holdings ( mementos ) as evidence and concludes with articles about web archives. Articles that Reference Web Archives 'Fake News' And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid What the Washington Post's rush to be the first to report on Russian hackers breaching the US power grid teaches us about how "breaking news" can all too often become "fake news" when we over-