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There is a small caveat, which is that these other copies probably used the Wayback Machines copies as their original source, even if they have stored them separately.
Nonetheless, Nelson wrote, with multiple copies geographically and administratively dispersed throughout the globe, an adversary would have had to hack multiple web archives and alter their contents (cf. lockss.org), or have hacked the original site (blog.reidreport.com) approximately 12 years ago for adulterated pages to have been hosted at all the different web archives.
As he notes, it is possible that someone did this, but extraordinarily unlikely.
Among the implausible factors is that for Reids story to be correct, someone would have had to hack her blog back in the 00s, but no one, including Reid herself, noticed the invalid posts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/the-evidence-is-not-with-joy-reid/558935/
hlthe2b
(102,405 posts)No one can take down a Democratic/Progressive voice, like "we" can ourselves, it would appear
Yes, I'm damned sick of it. Who next? Should we re-disseminate all Michelle Obama's (or Barack's) ATTRIBUTED, PURPORTED, infamous, and largely untruthful, "pants on fire" statements? Gotta help the RW make them viral too.
WE have seen the "enemy" and it is US.
mythology
(9,527 posts)I get that you don't like the article, but that doesn't make them conservative.
hlthe2b
(102,405 posts)FBaggins
(26,773 posts)Im sure somewhere in his book Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology youll find some RW talking points - right?
hlthe2b
(102,405 posts)for whatever motivation.... so, hardly an isolated issue. Just like The Nation has gone so far Pro-Russia thanks to KVH's Russia loving academic hubby.
FBaggins
(26,773 posts)Essentially the lefts version of Trumps fake news claims.
avebury
(10,952 posts)That is oh so true.
Liberals/Progressives need to stop eating their own. All it does is play into the hands of the 1%ers and bat sh*t crazy far right to the total detrimate of the Left. There is no level playing field as the far right is free to do whatever they want, no matter how illegal and/or immoral it is and without consequence while they easily trash people on the liberal/progressive side (do as we say not as we do) and the left goes along with it far too often.
They saw themselves get away with the Left finishing off Al Franken for them and found it to be a successful political model in trying to maintain control. They are incapable of winning fairly so they will lie, cheat, steal and get down in the mud to maintain control of the "mountain top."
I really like Joy Reid. She is extremely successful on air in combatting what is going on with Trump and the far right and I am not going to abandon her. We need to be publicly more supportive of those on our side and not let them be picked off one at a time. As long as no criminal act was commited, I don't care what she said in the past, I care about the work she is doing now. The far right have people out there that make Joy Reid look like a choir girl in comparison.
People need to keep their eyes on the ball and focus on dealing with what is going on in this country NOW, not what happened in the past. You cannot change the past, you can only try to influence the present and the future.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)Very sad for Reid. I think it's going to take time for all of this to digest
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)Which is just a re-hash of the same Breitbart article we see here.
Give it a rest, Francis.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Not.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)... them, 2. there was 3 days between one of the post and TWBM scraping, that's 3 lifetimes in hacking world, 3. If its implausible for Reid not to notice the post being change its even more implausible no one noticed they were made at all !! Few if any feedback at that time on them.
still_one
(92,433 posts)over a decade ago
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)But in all honesty, it hasn't gone unnoticed that you have been posting anti-Reid articles all week. We all know what the situation is and don't need this kind of bullshit to remind us.
rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)I love Joy Reid and I could give a shit about some obscure blog posts she may or may not have actually written years ago.
Boring.