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Link Rot and Vanishing News: Why Online Information Disappears and What You Can Do

by Themba Sweet September 4, 2025. Technology 0

Click a headline, get an empty page. This piece explains why stories vanish online—paywalls, takedowns, bad redirects—and how it skews the news cycle. It breaks down the tech behind link rot and content drift, and offers practical steps to find missing pages, save evidence, and demand better newsroom practices.