A Brief Primer on Using Web-Archived Evidence


One would suppose that Elon Musk had adopted Meta's (née Facebook's) famous motto, "move fast and break things" since his takeover of Twitter in October 2022. A steady stream of news articles has chronicled the numerous and not entirely successful experiments that he has undertaken with the company and its service. We need not even take journalists' word for it, or rely on the continued accessibility and discoverability of those articles; many of the changes themselves can be observed by anyone through indelible web archives, most notably among them the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (IAWM).

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