• What: Create a public record of news and culture sites.

• Why: Any autocrat or fascist system of power will fight to remove any information that is inconvenient.

  • It is impossible to know ahead of time what information (art, culture, music, history) might be banned. Glass-skinned people will find any arbitrary symbol or picture or knowledge offensive to their rule of power.

    • Childhood cartoons of an iconic yellow bear? Drawings of a certain flower? A picture of a politician holding hands with a family member?
    • In addition, fake news or misinformation needs to be preserved, as to assist with answering questions like:
    • "Who was the target of the misinformation campaign?", "How long did the psychological warfare last?", "What lies were manufactured?"
    • The sky's the limit on the number of answers that can be found by studying this archived information in the future.

• How: Raspberry Pi's have been covertly placed in public wifi spots across the country. These devices will visit and archive the sites listed. The archive is hosted at archive.is and archive.today and eventually at archive.org.

• Where: Did this list of links come from? It has been continuously hand crafted by me. So it is prone to biases and accidental omissions

• Whether or not?: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/i7uvve/the_truth_is_paywalled_but_the_lies_are_free/ -Any comment past L4 is probably off topic. Feel free to comment or respond.

• Who can help?: You can! Add sites you find to be important to the list and help future researchers remember the past! Add sites in any language, as facism is growing worldwide. If you are willing to run a small VM, this can assist with the effort by helping circumnavigate any google captchas.

• Are some of the links NSFW?: Yes, few sites in the list are included because they have had cultural, political, or historical significance. For example the world news subreddit "r/anime_titties" which despite the name, features world news and politics.

A more detailed dataset with tags and categories is available upon request.

ARCHIVES USED IN THE NEWS

• National Archives Caught Editing Photo To Remove Anti-Trump Message
• Strategic National Stockpile description altered online after Kushner’s remarks
• A deleted voter story at a local Denver TV station has morphed into a monster
• InfoWars Publishes (and Swiftly Deletes) Video of Texas Congressman Masturbating
• Long Island ‘lottery lawyer’ partnered with mob associates to cash in on clients’ winnings: feds
• Boebert Deletes Her YouTube Account Where She Subscribed to Multiple QAnon Channels
• This Kayleigh McEnany Facebook Group Was Run from Macedonia
• Controversial Data-mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser’s Biography After She Joins Campaign
• Myanmar blocks website of rights group critical of Tatmadaw
• EPA’s climate change website went down a year ago for ‘updating.’ It’s still not back
• The Proud Boys Are Looking For Love And Want To Know Your Bra Size
• NYT Quietly Edits Headline On Failed Coronavirus Deal To Protect Democrats — Twice
• Dominic Cummings edited an old blog to add a reference to coronaviruses
• India blocks Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
• OAN deletes articles about Dominion election conspiracy theories

ISSUES

• From Nov 7th to Nov 12th 2020 only 18% of the sites were able to be archived due to an upstream change