Editing Internet Archive (section)

===Hosting of disputed media===
On October 9, 2016, the Internet Archive was temporarily blocked in [[Turkey]] after it was used (amongst other file hosting services) by hackers to host 17&nbsp;GB of leaked government emails.<ref>{{cite web|title=Turkey restores access to Google Drive after blocking cloud storage services|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-restores-access-to-google-drive-after-blocking-cloud-storage-services.aspx?pageID=238&nID=104784&NewsCatID=339|website=Turkey Blocks| date=October 10, 2016 |access-date=October 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924185119/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-restores-access-to-google-drive-after-blocking-cloud-storage-services.aspx?pageID=238&nID=104784&NewsCatID=339|archive-date=September 24, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2017/turkey|title=Turkey Country Report &#124; Freedom on the Net 2017|date=November 14, 2017|website=freedomhouse.org|access-date=December 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227084718/https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2017/turkey|archive-date=December 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Because the Internet Archive only lightly moderates uploads, it includes resources that may be valued by extremists and the site may be used by them to evade [[Blacklist (computing)|block list]]ing. In February 2018, the Counter Extremism Project said that the Archive hosted terrorist videos, including the beheading of [[Alan Henning]], and had declined to respond to requests about the videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.counterextremism.com/blog/dark-side-internet-archive|title=The Dark Side of the Internet Archive|first=Joanna|last=Fisher-Birch|date=14 February 2018|access-date=25 February 2024|publisher=Counter Extremism Project}}</ref> In May 2018, a report published by the cyber-security firm Flashpoint stated that the [[Islamic State]] was using the Internet Archive to share its propaganda.<ref name=BBC2018>{{cite web|access-date=6 February 2022|title=IS propaganda 'hidden on Internet Archive'|date=15 May 2018|last=Kelion|first=Leo|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44112431|archive-date=February 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206225416/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44112431|url-status=live}}</ref> Chris Butler, from the Internet Archive, responded that they regularly spoke to the US and EU governments about sharing information on terrorism.<ref name=BBC2018/> In April 2019, [[Europol]], acting on a referral from French police, asked the Internet Archive to remove 550 sites of "terrorist propaganda".<ref name=BBC2019>{{cite web|access-date=6 February 2022|title=Internet Archive denies hosting 'terrorist' content|date=12 April 2019|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47908220|archive-date=February 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206225410/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47908220|url-status=live}}</ref> The Archive rejected the request, saying that the reports were wrong about the content they pointed to, or were too broad for the organization to comply with.<ref name=BBC2019/> On July 14, 2021, the Internet Archive held a joint "Referral Action Day" with Europol to target terrorist videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/jihadist-content-targeted-internet-archive-platform|title=Jihadist content targeted on Internet Archive platform|publisher=Europol|access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref>

A 2021 article said that [[jihadist]]s regularly used the Internet Archive for "[[dead drop]]s" of terrorist videos.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27044234|title=The Dead Drops of Online Terrorism: How Jihadists Use Anonymous Online Platforms|last1=Weimann|first1=Gabriel|last2=Vellante|first2=Asia|journal=Perspectives on Terrorism|volume=15|number=4|pages=39–53|date=August 2021|jstor=27044234 |access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref> In January 2022, a former [[UCLA]] lecturer's 800-page manifesto, containing racist ideas and threats against UCLA staff, was uploaded to the Internet Archive.<ref name=Vice>{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/archivists-are-putting-terrorist-manifestos-online-should-they-stay-there/|title=Archivists Are Putting Terrorist Manifestos Online. Should They Stay There?|last=Woodcock|first=Claire|date=14 February 2022|access-date=2 March 2022|publisher=Vice|archive-date=March 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302220806/https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn5g3/archivists-are-putting-terrorist-manifestos-online-should-they-stay-there|url-status=live}}</ref> The manifesto was removed by the Internet Archive after a week, amidst discussion about whether such documents should be preserved by archivists or not.<ref name=Vice/> Another 2022 paper found "an alarming volume of terrorist, extremist, and racist material on the Internet Archive".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/chapter-detail?id=1076559|chapter=Open Archive of Hate: Terrorism and Violent Extremism on Internet Archive|pages=10–24|title=Proceedings of the 28th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities|date=2022|publisher=Scientia Moralitas Research Institute }}</ref> A 2023 paper reported that Neo-Nazis collect links to online, publicly available resources to be shared with new recruits. As the Internet Archive hosts uploaded texts that are not allowed on other websites, Nazi and neo-Nazi books in the Archive (e.g., ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'') frequently appear on these lists. These lists also feature older, public domain material created when white supremacist views were more mainstream.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Boucher|first1=Geoff|last2=Young|first2=Helen|title=Digital books and the far right|journal=Continuum|volume=37|issue=1|date=2023|pages=140–152|doi=10.1080/10304312.2023.2191905|s2cid=257783779 |doi-access=free}}</ref>