And another shoe drops on NBC homophobe Joy Reid and her homophobic blog posts. It seems that Reid’s attorney told Wayback Machine to scrub their caches of all of Joy Reid’s homophobic blog posts. The attorney, like Reid claimed that there was “tampering” and “fraudulent posts inserted into legitimate content.” The Wayback Machine found no instances of tampering or hacking of the Wayback Machine versions. I guess NBC is cool with homophobes like Joy Reid, as they have been silent ever since news about her homophobic blog posts came out last year. Even with the renewed interest in her homophobic blog posts, NBC continues to remain silent.
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This past December, Reid’s lawyers contacted us, asking to have archives of the blog (blog.reidreport.com) taken down, stating that “fraudulent” posts were “inserted into legitimate content” in our archives of the blog. Her attorneys stated that they didn’t know if the alleged insertion happened on the original site or with our archives (the point at which the manipulation is to have occurred, according to Reid, is still unclear to us).
When we reviewed the archives, we found nothing to indicate tampering or hacking of the Wayback Machine versions. At least some of the examples of allegedly fraudulent posts provided to us had been archived at different dates and by different entities.
We let Reid’s lawyers know that the information provided was not sufficient for us to verify claims of manipulation. Consequently, and due to Reid’s being a journalist (a very high-profile one, at that) and the journalistic nature of the blog archives, we declined to take down the archives. We were clear that we would welcome and consider any further information that they could provide us to support their claims.