The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril (opens in new tab)

submitted by geneva_convenience to technology1 points | 0 comments month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine,...