🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record.
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🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record.
At a time when parts of the web are disappearing, journalists are defending web preservation, accountability, and access to the public record.
Read Mark's letter
️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine/
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🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record.
At a time when parts of the web are disappearing, journalists are defending web preservation, accountability, and access to the public record.
Read Mark's letter
️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine/This is critical, because web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.
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Some publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.
Join the journalists in telling publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition
️ https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/#WaybackMachine @MarkGraham
