2021-01-09: Embedded Tweets From @realDonaldTrump: They Won’t Break, But They Can Be Faked
On Friday, Twitter suspended Donald Trump's account due to concerns that his current and future tweets might continue to foment violence in the United States. Hayes Brown from MSNBC and Marshall Cohen from CNN echoed a concern I had when developing MementoEmbed : what happens to the embed if the source material or a service managing the embed goes away? Shoutout to every digital journalist who’s just realized how many articles they now have out there full of broken embeds — Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) January 8, 2021 Trump’s tweets are embedded in thousands of news articles, and now all those links are dead...... — Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) January 8, 2021 Are the embeds really dead? What can we do to provide evidence that the tweet actually existed? Are Trump's tweet embeds dead? No. As explained by Michael Nelson in the Twitter thread below, the embeds still display the tweet text because the tweet contents are stored in the embedding page by-value