What is "Archive-It" that preserves news articles and documents so that they are not buried by pressure from billionaire?

ByUniversity of Exeter

Wrestler'sHulk HoganAccording to a lawsuit appealed by Mr. Gossip "Gawker"Received a compensation order of 140 million dollars (about 15 billion yen)Gawker Media of the management company applied for bankruptcy application. In this background, PayPal co-founderPeter TielIt is clear from his testimony that there was the fact that Mr. Hulk Hogan was supported by Mr. Gawker who reportedly advertised himself against himself due to retaliation. The American NPO "Freedom of the Press Foundation" has a sense of crisis in the pressures from such billionaires,Internet ArchiveIn collaboration with "Archive-ItI started the archive service of the article saying.

Archiving the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers
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"Archive-It" is intended to store online content created by the organization. In particular, "retaliation from billionaire" is focused on online news sites that are weakly financially viable, withdrawing news articles and remarks, etc. and preserving the entire site before making changes I am aiming for it. "Archive-It" is a web sitesnap shotBy acquiring it at a specific point in time, you can compare the acquired content with the following contents, make changes, compare the deleted contents.

For example, in the case of "Gawker", if it is acquired by a hostile person such as Mr. Teale, it is highly likely that news articles will be altered or deleted, but the existence of "Archive-It" The meaning of the act itself will be lost, resulting in protection of the content.


"Archive-It"crawlWhen targeted, not only are archives gathered, but also the archive browsing service of "Internet Archive" "Wayback MachineIt is also linked to. For researchers looking for content that can not be obtained online, being able to view materials that do not already exist is very important.

For this reason, not only the press,University of California Los AngelesThen.Wall Street occupation movementRelated sites and documentsarchive, Happened in 2014Ukraine Civil WarIt is holding a snapshot of the website which becomes the source of the news.

BySasha Maksymenko

In addition, there are times when articles that were hidden thanks to "Archive-It" are discovered. "LA Weekly"Although the information on the new owner was kept secret for employees, it was stored in" Archive-It ". This seems to be caused by one of former employees temporarily posting the article "Who owns" LA Weekly "?

According to this former employee, "Archive-It"crawlIt seems to be confirmed that the article has been reprinted since it began to be done, and it is being verified whether the content of the article is the same as the one wrote himself before crawling.

ByKeith Allison

According to "Freedom of Freedom Foundation", even though "Archive-It" made it possible to protect past articles and content, it would not solve the fundamental problem of "retaliation from billionaire" So the risk that articles and contents that were supposed to be written in the future will disappear remain. In other words, the act itself that avoids the responsibilities that millionaires should originally receive, due to intentional acquisitions of news sites, is only an obstacle to building a sound society.

For this reason, we have concluded that we need to think about how we will protect media that has few techniques to deal with monetary attacks.