The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the mission of providing “universal access to all knowledge.” It was founded in 1996 and serves as a hub for internet research. Its most important service is called the Wayback Machine, which attempts to save every web page online.
Fact checks: In 2020, the platform began adding fact-checks to archived web pages provided by biased services like Politifact.
Now: After New York Times journalist Taylor Lorenz doxxed the owner of Libs of TikTok, researchers went to the Wayback Machine to research the journalist’s deleted Tweets. This is the same method Lorenz used to doxx Libs Of TikTok.