Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with ...

More companies are opting not to archive their sites ...

Three decades after Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive to preserve humanity’s digital record, the nonprofit behind ...

Several major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today’s parent company, are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from crawling their sites. Publishers ...

The Wayback Machine only took 148,628 snapshots from those same 100 news websites' homepages between May 17 and Oct. 1, 2025.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Dec. 2, 2025) — The Poynter Institute partners with Internet Archive and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) to bring preservation and web archive training to 300 news ...

SAN FRANCISCO — If you've ever clicked on a hyperlink that's taken you to something called the Wayback Machine to view an old web page, you've been introduced to the Internet Archive. The nonprofit, ...

Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA’s ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...