The summary is that last year Reid (a journalist for a major US television news network) publicly apologized for a series of blog posts that were characterized as 'homophobic'. More posts of a similar nature were recently discovered on archive.org, and instead of apologizing for these as well, Reid has disavowed them. She and her lawyers claim that unlike the previous occasion, these newly discovered posts were altered by 'hackers' either before or after being archived. The linked blog post is making the limited claim the posts on archive.org accurately represent the posts present on Reid's site at the time they were archived, and do not appear to have been altered post-archiving.
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https://theintercept.com/2018/04/24/msnbcs-joy-reid-claims-h...
The summary is that last year Reid (a journalist for a major US television news network) publicly apologized for a series of blog posts that were characterized as 'homophobic'. More posts of a similar nature were recently discovered on archive.org, and instead of apologizing for these as well, Reid has disavowed them. She and her lawyers claim that unlike the previous occasion, these newly discovered posts were altered by 'hackers' either before or after being archived. The linked blog post is making the limited claim the posts on archive.org accurately represent the posts present on Reid's site at the time they were archived, and do not appear to have been altered post-archiving.