Twitter broke the Wayback Machine.... Posts cannot be archived.

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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Way back machine has always been a left wing website. I find it more likely than not that the problem is on their end.

[–]RedditButt 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

What makes you think wayback machine has a political bias?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I have seen them remove content that exposed left wing lies.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I did a search, and while your claim could be valid, I could not confirm it, but I may not know what to look for to see a political bias. If you or u/WoodyWoodPecker could confirm this with an example, that would be more convincing of bias. I searched again for the opposite of the "left wing" to see if they archive Republican content, and I found they do. Example:

Trump at the CDC

cc u/RedditButt

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's not reasonable to expect me to keep records of every corrupt thing every website does just incase you want to see it one day. There have been many times where people tried to research things like government websites changing definitions to follow political narratives, news websites reporting things one way then changing that report, Wikipedia entries getting white washed, and the evidence for it was links to wayback logs only for those logs to dissappear when the stroy gains traction.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Are you able to dig up some examples, because I'm genuinely curious.

Also, wikipedia has changelogs, but I'm unaware of those logs disappearing. You can still find stuff people wanted buried, but it takes a bit of digging.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not going to do that kind of work. If you actually wanted to find that evidence you would do the work and find it yourself.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I haven't seen this happen before, so I was being open minded in assuming your claim wasn't bullshit.

I'm now guessing it is, afterall.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is because the people behind it are liberal progressives, they ban and cense any news and views they don't like.