> While it’s unclear how or why those archives vanished, Abulhawa says the coincidence raises concern about a broader digital erasure of Palestinian documentation.
Note: I am making no comment on the conflict itself here.
I understand that journalists have to go where the people are, but if your archive strategy relies on posts on social media, you do not, in fact, have an archive strategy.
I don't believe the Internet Archive would be described as social media. I do believe the quote you provided is referring to the Instagram posts being archived on the Internet Archive, not that the journalist in question expected Instagram to be a sound archive strategy. It's the fact that the posts disappeared on archive.org that's a concern imho, not that Meta arbitrarily deleted a profile.
FB should make it available again. It is a historical record of the conflict as seen by someone experiencing it. To deny it is unfair. I don’t think FB is going around deleting the pages of Israelis killed in this conflict - it seems to be exclusive to Palestinians.
Usual endless whinging that goes on in HN comments
I'm an Israel supporter but I think the way these companies just hand waive is endlessly infuriating. Whether it's this or Youtube removing covid "misinformation" or other things (from actual experts) - hey, we never have to explain anything to you; "violates our community standards" suffices as an explanation (but, god help you if you actually report things that need to be taken down, for very good reason - then, suddenly, it DOESN'T violate ANY of our community standards!)
Without discussing this specific "journalist" which we all know it's nonsense.
Those who relay on large company for there digital life should know it's not their data, you sign a deal with companies that have sole single target don't be surprised with any action it takes.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 19.9 ms ] threadNote: I am making no comment on the conflict itself here.
I understand that journalists have to go where the people are, but if your archive strategy relies on posts on social media, you do not, in fact, have an archive strategy.
I'm an Israel supporter but I think the way these companies just hand waive is endlessly infuriating. Whether it's this or Youtube removing covid "misinformation" or other things (from actual experts) - hey, we never have to explain anything to you; "violates our community standards" suffices as an explanation (but, god help you if you actually report things that need to be taken down, for very good reason - then, suddenly, it DOESN'T violate ANY of our community standards!)
They should all be in prison, most likely