Tag: Wikipedia
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Botnets and Betrayal: Why Wikipedia is Purging 700,000 Archive.today Links
A contentious debate has erupted within the English Wikipedia community regarding one of the most ubiquitous web archiving utilities. Project contributors are currently deliberating the propriety of maintaining citations to Archive.today (alternatively known as archive.is), a service that has served for years as a vital bulwark against “link rot.” This scrutiny was precipitated by recent…
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Digital Sanitization: Leaked Emails Detail Epstein’s $15k/Month SEO War on His Past
Newly released documents from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight reveal how, in 2010–2011, Jeffrey Epstein deployed search-engine optimization tactics and crisis PR strategies to bury references to his criminal past and construct an online persona as a philanthropist and patron of science. These emails and internal materials show that the campaign of “digital sanitization”…