Tag Archives: Donald Trump

How to Use the Trump Archive to find TV news appearances, fact checks, and share clips

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Katie Dahl The experimental Trump Archive, which we launched in January, is a collection of President Donald Trump’s appearances on TV news shows, including interviews, speeches, and press conferences dating back to 2009. Now largely hand-curated, the Trump Archive is a prototype … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News, Television Archive | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

TV news highlights with fact checks

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

By Nancy Watzman and Katie Dahl Last week, our national fact checking partners concentrated on two events featuring President Donald Trump: a press conference on February 16, and his rally in Melbourne, Florida on February 18. The Conservative Political Action … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Television Archive | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on TV news highlights with fact checks

This week’s TV news highlights with fact checks

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

by Katie Dahl As part of a new regular feature, the Internet Archive presents highlights from our national fact checking partners of TV news segments aired over the past week. These include President Donald Trump’s assertion that the number of police officers … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

In the news: Trump Archive, end-of-term preservation, & link rot

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

News outlets have been getting the word out on Internet Archive efforts to preserve President-elect Donald Trump’s statements; the outgoing Obama Administration’s web page and government data; as well as preventing that nasty experience of encountering a “404” when you … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

See Trump Archive fact checks in one place

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

Robin Chin, Katie Dahl, Tracey Jaquith, Roger Macdonald, Nancy Watzman, and Dan Schultz are contributing research and engineering for the Trump Archive.  Now it’s easier to find fact checks of specific statements by President-elect Donald Trump in our new Trump Archive, … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Internet Archive’s Trump Archive launches today

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Nancy Watzman

The Trump Archive launches today with 700+ televised speeches, interviews, debates, and other news broadcasts related to President-elect Donald Trump, created using the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive. A work in progress, the growing collection now includes more than 520 hours … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 82 Comments

How the Internet Archive is hacking the election

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

There are thirteen days until Election Day — not that we’re counting. In this most bizarre, unruly, terrifying, fascinating election year, the Internet Archive has been in the thick of it. We’re using technology to give journalists, researchers and the public … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on How the Internet Archive is hacking the election

Wayback Machine captures Melania Trump’s deleted internet bio

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

Melania Trump’s personal website is now gone from the internet — but is preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine — after a Huffington Post reporter and other news outlets began questioning elements of the would-be First Lady’s biography. Yesterday Christina Wilkie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged , , , , | 9 Comments

Is it 1968? Not really — but past convention video clips show controversy

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

Research by Robin Chin Is it 1968? Many pundits have been asking this question in recent days, in the lead up to what is expected to be a contentious–and some worry about violent–GOP convention in Cleveland, where Donald Trump is expected to … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Three takeaways after logging 1,032 political ads in the primaries

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

The Political TV Ad Archive launched on January 22, 2016, with the goal of archiving airings of political ads across 20 local broadcast markets in nine key primary states and embedding fact checks and source checks of those ads by … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment