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  • More than 340 newspapers block the Wayback Machine. What that means for the future of the internet

    05/23/2026 12:05:09 PM PDT · by Vendome · 30 replies
    SAN ^ | May 22, 2026 | Mark Keierleber
    The internet is forever, people warn. But leading newspaper companies could change that in a burgeoning war against artificial intelligence chatbots. More than 340 national and local news publishers, from The New York Times to The Idaho Statesman, have blocked the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories due to concerns their proprietary content could get gobbled up by Big Tech companies to train AI tools like ChatGPT. That’s according to a new analysis by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, which first reported that leading publishers across the U.S. have cut off access to the digital tool designed to...