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Help save Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine by signing this petition

Jennifer Sandlin
Jun 08, 2026
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Many publishers and news organizations, including the New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, and more, continue to block the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from archiving journalism. According to Forbes, 23 major news sites currently block ia_archiverbot, which is the web crawler used by Internet Archive for the Wayback Machine. Forbes further sta…

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