{"id":64016,"date":"2018-04-25T05:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64016"},"modified":"2018-04-25T05:31:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:31:32","slug":"an-internet-nonprofit-challenged-joy-reids-claim-that-her-blog-was-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/an-internet-nonprofit-challenged-joy-reids-claim-that-her-blog-was-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"An Internet Nonprofit Challenged Joy Reid\u2019s Claim That Her Blog Was Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Internet Nonprofit Challenged Joy Reid\u2019s Claim That Her Blog Was Hacked<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

A nonprofit internet library on Tuesday challenged MSNBC host Joy Reid\u2019s claim that someone added anti-gay material to an archived version of her now-defunct blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, the Internet Archive, which maintains a digital archive of websites called the Wayback Machine, said that it had investigated the liberal commentator\u2019s assertion in December 2017, following a request from her attorneys.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we reviewed the archives, we found nothing to indicate tampering or hacking of the Wayback Machine versions,\u201d read the statement attributed to Internet Archive officer manager Chris Butler. \u201cAt least some of the examples of allegedly fraudulent posts provided to us had been archived at different dates and by different entities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Reid first publicly claimed that an \u201cexternal actor\u201d had \u201cgained access to and manipulated\u201d her old blog, called the Reid Report, in a statement to Mediaite Monday. According to the Internet Archive, Reid\u2019s lawyers were unclear whether they believed the alteration had happened prior to the original site being taken down from the internet or within the Wayback Machine itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The newly surfaced posts, from 2005\u20132007, make reference to Anderson Cooper \u2014 who came out in 2012 \u2014 as \u201cthe gayest thing on TV,\u201d state that \u201cmost straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing,\u201d and recount that the author was unable to attend Brokeback Mountain, a love story about two cowboys, because she \u201cdidn\u2019t want to watch the two male characters having sex.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In December, Reid apologized for a separate series of remarks on the Reid Report that were criticized as anti-gay.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web that researchers and journalists rely on for its snapshots of defunct websites and previous iterations of extant ones. Website owners can opt out of their content being captured by the Wayback Machine through what\u2019s called the robots exclusion standard, or \u201crobots.txt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the statement by the Internet Archive, \u201cA robots.txt exclusion request specific to the Wayback Machine was placed on the live blog\u201d of the Reid Report after its correspondence with Reid\u2019s lawyer. \u201cThat request was automatically recognized and processed by the Wayback Machine and the blog archives were excluded, unbeknownst to us (the process is fully automated).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/josephbernstein\/internet-archive-reid?utm_term=.jioO8lY2y#.loLGb9gRw<\/span><\/p>\n

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