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🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰

At a time when parts of the web are disappearing, journalists are defending web preservation, accountability, and access to the public record.

Read Mark's letter ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-…

Screenshot of a section of Mark Graham's letter citing Marketplace Tech reporting that publishers blocking the Wayback Machine appear to be acting on AI concerns rather than evidence of actual misuse.
Screenshot of the closing of Mark Graham's letter, asserting that preserving the public record is essential infrastructure for democracy, and signed by Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive.
Screenshot of the opening of Mark Graham's letter, thanking journalists for their support and noting the Wayback Machine's thirty-year role in preserving over one trillion web pages for the public record.

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PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP - RBMS (Rare Books & Manuscripts Section) CONFERENCE Led by Lila Bailey (Internet Archive) and Michael Menna (Stanford University)—authors of the Statement on Digital Rights for Protecting Memory […]\n
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