In recent years, journalists and other researchers have used web archives as an important resource for their study of disinformation. This paper provides several examples of this use and also brings together some of the work that the Old Dominion University Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group has done in this area. We will show how web archives have been used to investigate changes to webpages, study archived social media including deleted content, and study known disinformation that has been archived.
@article{arxiv.2306.10004,
title = {The Use of Web Archives in Disinformation Research},
author = {Michele C. Weigle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10004},
year = {2023}
}
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12 pages, expanded version of blog post at https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/09/2022-09-28-using-web-archives-in.html