Why Major News Sites Are Blocking The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with ...

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

"There's no question that the general locking-down of more and more of the public web is impacting society's ability to ...

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet ...

AI could finish the Wayback Machine, with more news sites blocking it

This isn't the first time the Wayback Machine has faced what could be deemed an existential threat.

Is the internet’s memory at risk? The world's most-used archiving tool is under threat

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which has preserved over a trillion web pages, faces mounting challenges as major ...

Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine under severe threat by publisher blocks

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions ...

Media organizations are increasingly blocking the Wayback Machine.

An analysis from Originality AI, an AI detection company, found that 23 big news sites block the Internet Archive’s crawler, Wired reports. A USA Today spokesperson told the publication that the move ...
Wired

The Wayback Machine and Cloudflare Want to Backstop the Web

The web is decentralized and fluid by design, but all that chaos and ephemerality can make it difficult to keep a site up and online without interruption. That's what has made the Internet Archive's ...
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Internet Archive rolls out fact-checking on archived webpages

Even the Wayback Machine is getting into fact-checking now. In a blog post on its website, the Internet Archive announced it was rolling out fact-checking annotations on certain webpages archives by ...