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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoy Ann Reid is the latest left-leaning victim in the Russian Cyber Warfare.
Black Propaganda is controversial, unsettling, false information inserted into an actual authenticated email or other document that has been re-purposed/stolen from the originator...
Black Propaganda is designed to place erroneous facts into the MSM and smear the reputation of the target, in this case, Joy Ann Reid...
The Russians will continue to use this Black Propaganda tactic as long as Americans continue to take unverified scuttlebutt and share it as gospel at assorted sites. A similar tactic was used to scare a few Dems into asking for the resignation of Sen Al Franken. (Franken admitted to being touchy/feelly with women and this was twisted into being an act akin to groping or raping... Sen Gillibrand and other Dems paniked and got sucked in!)
Let's stop being easy marks for the Russians, DUers...
BTW, the WayBackMachine cannot guarantee authenticity of Joy's old blog!
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(145,567 posts)The wayback machine does not guarantee anything https://burningbird.net/the-joy-reid-saga-the-wayback-machine-cannot-guarantee-authenticity/#.WuDw69w6PTy.twitter
The Wayback Machine is an invaluable historical record of the web. Through it, Ive been able to recover past writings lost because of all the many changes Ive made to my web site. Its a wonderful way of exploring the webs history.
However, the Wayback Machine is not, and never has been, a definitive source of the authenticity of what it captures on the web. It has access to a web page at a specific location at a specific time but no special privilege that allows it to determine the authenticity of the author of the content in the page.
As noted by Chris Butler at the Internet Archives, home organization for the Wayback Machine:
When we reviewed the archives, we found nothing to indicate tampering or hacking of the Wayback Machine versions. At least some of the examples of allegedly fraudulent posts provided to us had been archived at different dates and by different entities.
Pages archived at different dates and by different entities... This statement is key to understanding the difference between Wayback Machines archival functionality as separate from the medias assumption of Wayback Machine as Super Authenticator, able to leap tall metadata with a single bound!