Twitter is wiping embeds of deleted tweets from the web

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[–]StillLessons 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's funny. This is literally what Winston's job is in the Ministry of Truth in 1984. Real life is exactly following fiction. It's not even that it rhymes; this is precisely what he wrote. 1984 itself is on the chopping block now too, of course...

[–]portace 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fun fact, parts of 1984 were based on Orwell's experience working for BBC from 1941-1943.

BBC, of course, is state-controlled media who had their journalist Jill Dando murdered for trying to expose pedos in their upper ranks.

BBC also reported the collapse of WTC7 before it even happened during 9/11, then they "lost" the footage for that report and "found" it again a year later after someone posted it on youtube.

[–]package 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This is literally how embeds of everything on every service ever have always worked; don't pretend you haven't seen a grey box where a youtube video should have been. The only way for embeds not to work like this is A) use the definition of the embed itself to store the info, in which case it isn't an embed as much as it is a fancy hyperlink or B) do like twitter apparently was and not actually delete anything, which is stupid because then any tweet ever would be "undelete-able" simply by pretending you're displaying it as an embed. FWIW I'm pretty sure twitter has not ever worked as this article suggests as, again, that would be really stupid and I'm positive I've seen twitter embeds years ago which either don't load when the source is deleted or display some sort of 404 message like the site itself does.

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

Exactly. No reputable news source should be relying on content hosted somewhere else. Take a screenshot of the tweet, and host it yourself. You hardly own data, in the first place, why would you expect to own data hosted at someone else's expense?

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

I wonder if they're gonna target the wayback machine next. It's nearly the last line of maintaining some resemblance of truth online.