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The NED has removed its records of $22M in Ukraine funding (archive.org)
1 point by droptablemain on April 11, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



What are we supposed to infer from this empty wayback link?


The archived link shows $22 million+ in Ukraine funding since 2014. Today their database shows "no results found" for Ukraine.


What I see is:

> Hrm.

> The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.

> Click here to search for all archived pages under http://%5B%5D%3D&projectFocus%5B%5D%3D&projectFocus%5B%5D%3D....

I think you or HN has formatted the link wrong.

> https://web.archive.org/web/20220225145303/%5B%5D=&projectFo...


I see. Something has gone awry. Updated link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220225145303/https:/www.ned.or...


Edit: What a clanger of a mistake on my part, I read the wrong dates. My "earlier" snapshot is in fact a day later than yours. Disregard that part below, and skip to the final paragraph.

Thanks. I was curious about the duplicate projectFocus params so I de-duplicated them and plugged the URL back into wayback, finding a snapshot from a few days earlier that is also empty: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226004405/https://www.ned.o...

I don't doubt the veracity of the non-empty listing you posted, but I don't know what's going on about the empty listings both shortly before and after.

NED (and shockingly also USAID) is often enough involved in much of what I would consider the highly immoral work of the CIA, so I see your point in noting the funding, even if I don't think it's a smoking gun for anything in and of itself.




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