• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    the videos made of people trying to file a complaint againt a policeman at mutiple departments

    One of the most famous examples of that was done by an investigative journalist in Florida, which lead to their state’s police union putting out a BOLO (be on the lookout) announcement for him (which are usually only used for wanted criminals), where they “accidentally” leaked his personal information

    https://web.archive.org/web/20060408064603/http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_086232143.html

    (I would link to the original, but it seems like every single news story about this got scrubbed from CBS’s website at some point, I was only able to find this page through a dead link on a blog page I was able to find an archived version of)

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      Yup this is the problem with digital news. It isn’t naturally archivable. You can’t go to a library and check old issues of stuff that was removed from digital storage.