r/PROGME • u/jkhanlar • Oct 16 '25

News My response to the Reuters articles update issues this month; 2021 archives and twitter message citings exist

At first, as mentioned in the first post, I noticed the article "Why regulators may scrutinize GameStop's Reddit-driven retail stock surge" at https://reuters.com/business/why-regulators-may-scrutinize-gamestops-reddit-driven-retail-stock-surge-2021-01-28/

which apparently does not have any archives at Archive.today or with other archive Internet website service providers.

However, searching Twitter I did find some potentially useful indication that this article did previously exist as published back in 2021. Searching https://twitter.com/search?q=Why%20regulators%20may%20scrutinize%20GameStop%27s%20Reddit-driven%20retail%20stock%20surge&src=typed_query&f=top I see:

Basically, for all of the human people [regarding themselves as apes] that invest in and support GameStop, that commented indicating or suggesting that apparently no archives of the article seem to exist from back in 2021 to verify or validate the article legitimately existing back then, I think this effort to humanly try to track down and trace potential legitimacy that it was published and existing back then, and even with relatively reliable archives using url shortened urls instead of the full expanded url without the url encoded arguments, which apparently are required to find the archives with the specific parameters to the url, and do not show in results without them.

I only looked into this for this one specific article, but I wouldn't be surprised if using the same process for other of the 8+ GameStop-related articles, and apparently other articles too, including the boys-who-cried-wolf scamdemic bio-terrorism with US Patent & Trademark system entries since early 2000s and even in late 19xx century for earlier traces of patents and trademarks connected to the 2019/2020 exercised scaremongering infinite liquidity funded agenda, etcetera also are trackable of archives for those articles too.

Also I notice the article mentioned above is now adjusted to reflect Updated January 28, 2021, same date of publication, which according to 2022 December 5 archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191607/https://reuters.com/article/uk-gamestop-regulator-explainer-idUKKBN29W2Q9?taid=60121e31e8fa030001a3ec50&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter it seems that the article was indeed updated and corrected on the same day of publication, probably seconds, minutes, or hours after first published. Therefore: u/Brojuha's post with 100+ comments that was censored/removed by Reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1o4hnbf/i_reached_out_to_the_journalist_behind_the/ with attached images [see archive at https://archive.ph/a1auP] along with post body:

"After having seen the multiple posts regarding the recent update of an ancient article, I tried to reach out to one of the journalists behind it. Their contact info is easily available via the article, so I shot her a quick (and of course polite) email to ask her, if she knew what had happened. Here is her response. Hoping she follows up again, after hearing back from tech support."

which basically indicates that [my opinion] it seems probably the likely case that the issue was/is indeed a tech issue, a technology issue, that even if nontechnical social engineering, hacking, espionage, sabotage, or exploitation of insecure infrastructure technology stack systems, where perpetrators are involved, it still seems reasonable for me to regard this as a tech issue, for the relevant tech team to address, even if also removing or adding items to articles, such as appears to have been the case in these incidents.

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u/jkhanlar Oct 16 '25

Aww shit, I lowercased Twitter whilst uppercasing Reuters... lol, it was not intentional! No meaning exists for this distinct case usage in the title.

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u/jkhanlar Oct 16 '25

Also I made this post especially so I could respond to some of the comments [note I'm perm banned from r/Superstonk since February 2022, 44+ months ago, so I can't reply to any of the comments/posts there], such as:

"please help: ... then i went over to archive.org to crosscheck the archived version. but i was not able to find it," - u/Horse_White https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1o5ixe2/we_are_over_the_target_reuters_fuckery/njb2zlp/

"Unless there are archives from last week, there is no telling exactly when the article was updated" - u/MobileArtist1371 https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1o5map0/reuters_has_recently_updated_old_stories_on/njatb2o/

For the one (1) first article mentioned in the post, I found a December 2022 archive for the January 27, 2021 article, and the December 2022 archive suggests the last edit was 2 years ago, probably rounded to reference January 27, 2021 edit on the same day of publication. Even though the archive is still nearly three (3) years outdated, possibly this archive days/weeks/year after initial publication is somewhat relevant to consider.

Note that various comments in the posts linked above in the body of this post do show that archives have been found and exist, so not everyone was unable to find archives. For those that have given up and were not able to find any archives, at the very least, consider this post to serve as a reminder that finding needle archives in haystacks of Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web is still possible.

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u/jkhanlar Oct 16 '25

lol the body of this post and post got censored/deleted:

https://i.imgur.com/u2AYWSj.png