In the year before the 2012 election there was a discussion about Obama having almost admitted on camera he wasn’t born in the U.S. I added that I’d seen the clip of that IL senate debate against Alan Keyes. I had seen it on FR probably in 2007. I remembered it very well.
Yet in 2012 no matter how I searched it was nowhere to be found on the web. My first experience with web scrubbing. Years ago I had success re-finding Veep Cheney’s infamous pocket rocket photo so I felt I was a good online researcher. But you can’t find that debate footage AN Y WHERE now.
When the e-mails on Climate Change were released that night I stayed up the entire time online... while various scientists and weather people moved from one site to the other for verification etc. I followed them, as well to get a handle on what was happening....and if true or not.
Remarkably once they began scrubbing information the “teams” out there looking for verification began also to pull off information before it could be scrubbed. It was a real war of securing the information some did not want the public to know. One of the most interesting nights I've had....but it also made me quite aware of the “Information wars” that do occur...and it's far more often then most would imagine.
Same with Propaganda.....you can tell when it starts hitting the Internet...there really is a rhythm to the net and when that gets disturbed you can tell pretty quickly.