In recent years, journalists and other researchers have used web archives as an important resource for their study of disinformation. This paper provides several examples of this use and also brings together some of the work that the Old Dominion University Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) research group has done in this area. We will show how web archives have been used to investigate changes to webpages, study archived social media including deleted content, and study known disinformation that has been archived.

翻译：近年来，记者及其他研究人员将网络档案作为研究虚假信息的重要资源。本文提供了此类应用的若干案例，并汇总了老道明大学网络科学与数字图书馆（WS-DL）研究团队在该领域开展的部分工作。我们将展示网络档案如何被用于调查网页变更、研究已归档的社交媒体（包括已删除内容），以及分析已被存档的已知虚假信息。