In February of 2020, the Washington Post published a story saying that Senator Tom Cotton had irresponsibly spread a fringe and “debunked” conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a laboratory. Fifteen months later, as that debunked conspiracy theory gained traction, the Post went back and stealth-edited the article, changing claims they had made without noting that they were correcting inaccurate or questionable statements.
As reality sets in around Covid-19 vaccines that are, at best, nowhere near as effective as the original promises, much more of this is coming. I can’t prove what’s going to happen in the future, but I strongly suspect that pieces like this one…
…are going to vanish, or at the very least be quietly revised. The problem with a digital culture is that the past can just be deleted. These science-hating morons refuse to protect themselves and others by taking the utterly flawless miracle vaccines, gone with a click.
Save them. Let’s do this together. Pick ten or twenty of the most egregious examples you can find, print paper copies, store screenshots, and be prepared to post examples publicly as the narrative shifts.
A whole lot of idiot-elite fearmongerers are about to very carefully forget everything that they’ve been saying for the last two years, and they’re going to try very hard to make sure that you forget too.
So remember, and keep the evidence.
Archive! Archive everything! Don't just rely on archive.org, either.
archive.is
archive.fo
perma.cc
pagefreezer.com
... there are plenty others, and you can always save a local copy of a page too.
“Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
1984’s censors were probably all journalists, fact-checkers and social media types.