Over 241 news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from using archived content for training.
"There's no question that the general locking-down of more and more of the public web is impacting society's ability to understand what's going on in our world." ...
More companies are opting not to archive their sites ...
The Wayback Machine only took 148,628 snapshots from those same 100 news websites' homepages between May 17 and Oct. 1, 2025.
Major news sites block the Internet Archive while using it for investigations, creating dangerous gaps in digital memory and ...
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...