I tracked a story about a dam collapse in Brazil that vanished from my news feed in 24 hours

Last Tuesday, a report from a local paper in Minas Gerais said a small dam gave way, flooding a village. The article had photos and a quote from a farmer who lost his land. By Wednesday afternoon, the link was dead and the big news sites had nothing. I only found it again because a friend in Sao Paulo sent me a screenshot from a different paper. It makes you wonder how many small disasters get erased before anyone outside the area even hears. Has anyone else seen a story get memory-holed that fast?

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cameron_owens491mo ago

Yeah that's messed up but not surprising. It happens all the time, stuff just gets buried. Makes you feel like you're going crazy when you know you saw something and then poof, it's gone. Really feel for those people, losing everything and then it's like it never even happened. The internet's supposed to keep a record but it feels more like a sieve sometimes.

ericschmidt1mo ago

Hold on though. Is it really that big of a deal? Most stuff that gets taken down was probably junk or wrong anyway. People forget things all the time, online or not. It's just how it goes.

victor21929d ago

Backing up everything locally saved me after a similar mess, @ericschmidt.