Over 241 news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from using archived content for training.
Several major news organizations, including The New York Times, USA Today and Reddit, have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from preserving their content, citing concerns over AI ...
Even the Wayback Machine is getting into fact-checking now. In a blog post on its website, the Internet Archive announced it was rolling out fact-checking annotations on certain webpages archives by ...
The Wayback Machine only took 148,628 snapshots from those same 100 news websites' homepages between May 17 and Oct. 1, 2025.
The web is decentralized and fluid by design, but all that chaos and ephemerality can make it difficult to keep a site up and online without interruption. That's what has made the Internet Archive's ...