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by pandaman 197 days ago
I did read your original post and pointed out that there is no archive of Snopes "checks" because Snopes excluded itself from the service. Do you have any ideas why would they do that? As far as I know, it's opt-out, the Wayback Machine indexes everything by default so Snopes not being indexed required some action from them.
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muwtyhg 197 days ago
> Did someone write a blogpost/tweet/reddit post/take a screenshot of it at the time?

For a claim you are making, you seem to not be able to find a single piece of evidence. How did you ever find out there was an original article that they edited? Is this purely from personal experience?

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pandaman 197 days ago
The claim I am making is that Snopes excluded itself from the Wayback Machine during 2020, here is the evidence: https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/snopes.com Apparently they enabled indexing only from the end of 2021.
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muwtyhg 197 days ago
No, you also claimed Snopes edited an article about masks, and claimed something about the contents it was edit from and to:

> My favorite was their check on masks in early 2020 - they said that masks do nothing to the airborne viruses and the government will never force you to wear one, people who are walking around with masks are dangerous lunatics who deprive medical workers of much needed PPE.

This is what I am asking about

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pandaman 196 days ago
Yes, that was my experience. I don't have proofs for most of my experience. I don't even have a proof I woke up this morning. Do you?
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