Mark Graham

@mark.bsky.social

Director, Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

The United States government should not attempt to hide the truth about its past, or even worse, rewrite history, but when it does, it’s up to the citizenry to preserve the real facts. Transparency and accountability are necessary foundations for a functioning democracy.

The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It

Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.

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“Compare any two captures of [URL] from our collection of [x] dating from [y] to [z].” This is great to know about. Now I just need to figure out what to click to do the comparison.

Autism and Vaccines

Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.

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Mark Graham@mark.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Last week a CDC webpage about vaccine safety was edited. Using the "Changes" feature of the Wayback Machine we can see a "before and after" comparison: web.archive.org/web/diff/202... The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the change control system the web never had.

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.

Did you catch the story about the Wayback Machine on CBS News Sunday Morning? 🌞 David Pogue chatted with @brewster.kahle.org about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch: cbsnews.com/news/the-way...

The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the web

Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely ava...

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