Nieman Lab·2026-04-15
Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving
In January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed that these decisions, including a “hard block” by the Times that started late last year, were driven by publishers’ concern that the Internet Archive’s free library of webpage snapshots could be scraped
今年一月，哈娜·塔米兹和我率先报道了《纽约时报》、《卫报》和《今日美国》公司已开始限制“互联网档案馆时光机”访问其新闻文章。我们的报道显示，这些决定——包括《纽约时报》去年底开始实施的“硬性阻止”——是出于出版商的担忧，他们担心互联网档案馆免费的网页快照库可能被抓取。