“...archived media items about him kept being scrubbed.”
I’ve always wondered how scrubbing works. I thought anything on the Internet was like Vegas.
What goes on the Internet, stays on the Internet.
Just curious: how does scrubbing work? Can things from the wayback machine be scrubbed?
“I’ve always wondered how scrubbing works. I thought anything on the Internet was like Vegas.”
It is up to the individual(s) with the archived media. Newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters can and do scrub archived material.
“Can things from the wayback machine be scrubbed?”
Yes and no. Leo Donofrio discovered that when it came to dealing with the issue concerning Justia.com:
“Justia continues to block all access to the Wayback Machine so that a full analysis of changes made to US Supreme Court cases previously published by Justia is impossible. Furthermore, Justia’s allegation that the scrubbing was due to an unintentional coding error has been scientifically debunked.”
So, can the information be scrubbed from the Wayback Machine? I do not know, but access can be denied.