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Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38284020

Why was it removed?

Went viral on tiktok when it was supposed to have been memoryholed, thus forcing the Guardian to take the PR hit by revealing their lack of journalistic integrity and deleting it.

If they were really worried about "context" they could have added something before the article.

Could you expand on the "lack of integrity"?

Deleting an article you published, in particular with no explanation or justification?

At least it's slightly less worse than silently editing them after the fact, which we've also seen a lot of newspapers doing in recent times.

I disagree that this is a lack of integrity. An organization has no obligation to maintain documents on its website in perpetuity.

The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared today on social media without its original context. Therefore we have decided to take it down."

Why not add the context to that page?

Maybe lack of integrity?

[dupe]

More discussion here:

The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38284020

Removed: Document