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This story started in December, 2017 with  Joy-Ann Reid (of MSNBC ) apologizing for "insensitive LGBT blog posts" that she wrote on her blog many years ago when she was a morning radio talk show host in Florida.   This apology was, at least in some quarters, (begrudgingly) accepted .   Today's update was news that Reid and her lawyers had in December claimed that either her blog, and/or the Internet Archive's record of the blog had been hacked ( Mediaite , The Intercept ).  Later today, the Internet Archive issued a blog post to deny the claim that it was hacked , stating: This past December, Reid’s lawyers contacted us, asking to have archives of the blog (blog.reidreport.com) taken down, stating that “fraudulent” posts were “inserted into legitimate content” in our archives of the blog. Her attorneys stated that they didn’t know if the alleged insertion happened on the original site or with our archives (Reid’s claim regarding the point of manipulation is s

Took screen shot, just in case, but I fear #Breitbart is well beyond the point of decency and shame that they would delete this insane tweet. #INTL4335 #Islamophobia pic.twitter.com/ipo1MhDmNI — Cas Mudde 🌪️ (@CasMudde) February 5, 2018 In early February, 2018  Breitbart News  made a splash with its inflammatory tweet suggesting  Muslims will end Super Bowl ,  which they deleted twelve hours later stating it did not meet their editorial standards. The deleted tweet had an imaginary conversation between a Muslim child and a grandparent about the Super Bowl and linked to one of articles on the  declining TV ratings of  National Football League (NFL) for the annual championship game . News articles from  The Hill , Huffington Post , Politico , Independent , etc., talked about the deleted tweet controversy in detail.  We have deleted a tweet that did not meet our editorial standards. — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 5, 2018 Being web

ISIS members immolating captured Jordanian pilot Web archives have been used for purposes other than digital preservation and browsing historical data. These purposes can be divided into three categories: Uploading content to web archives to ensure continuous availability of the data. Avoiding governments' censorship or websites' terms of service. Using URLs from web archives, instead of direct links, for news sites with opposing ideologies to avoid increasing their web traffic and deprive them of ad revenue. 1. Uploading content to web archives to ensure continuous availability of the data Web archives, by design, are intended to solve the problem of digital data preservation so people can access data when it is no longer available on the live web. In this paper,  Who and What Links to the Internet Archive , ( Yasmin AlNoamany , Ahmed AlSum , Michele C. Weigle , and Michael L. Nelson , 2013), the authors show that the percentage of the requested archived pag