I've been trying to resolve the cognitive dissonance between "AI-generated summaries are useful" and the backlash that Dr. Fieisler (@cfiesler.bsky.social), myself, and many others felt at the ACM DL briefly making them default over authors' abstracts in December. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026...

2026-05-28: If LLMs can write abstracts, what's our job? The Uncanny Valley and Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in the ACM Digital Library

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Was Snopes making silent updates to its articles before 2021? [Rating: TRUE] Check out the blog post here: ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/04/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

2026-04-21: Was Snopes.com making silent updates to its articles before 2021? [Rating: TRUE]

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see also: "Web Archiving in Popular Media II: User Tasks of Journalists" by @lesleyelisabeth.bsky.social @webscidl.bsky.social ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/08/2022...

2022-08-04: Web Archiving in Popular Media II: User Tasks of Journalists

The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

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Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it 🕵️‍♀️ Learn 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations on how reporters track deleted pages, uncover hidden connections, document edits & follow what vanishes, Read FOLLOW THE CHANGES ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...

In "Detecting and reconstructing trustworthy edit histories using web archives", I talk about different markers of edit history on webpages and how web archives can be used to verify or refute them. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026... @webscidl.bsky.social

@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social

Lesley's "welcome to WSDL" post from 2022 ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022... and the wrap-up post for her MS thesis “Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages” ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/10/2024...

2024-10-02: MS Thesis: Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages

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@webscidl.bsky.social's own Lesley Frew! big congrats to @weiglemc.bsky.social for recruiting her. www.odu.edu/article/odu-...

ODU Helps Fill Virginia's Need for More Computer Science Teachers

By Tiffany Whitfield

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