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#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag started (www.axios.com)

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35% of #BlackLivesMatter tweets created between 2013 and 2021 are no longer available on Twitter, report finds.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The internet can often never forget but things do get wiped out when sites go under. Think about random forums from a decade ago with dead links or images that aren't hosted anymore.

Some tweets actually get backed up by the Library of Congress so some percentage of voices are probably preserved.