| A memory hole is any mechanism for the deliberate alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened.((Murphy, K. (2010, June 1). //Memorial Day Memory Hole: After Israel Forgets “Exodus”, White House Forgets “Shores of Tripoli”. Will Obama Remember NATO?// Shadowproof. https://shadowproof.com/2010/05/31/memorial-day-memory-hole-after-israel-forgets-exodus-white-house-forgets-shores-of-tripoli-will-obama-remember-nato/)) ((Weinstein, A. (2010, June 13). //Nevada Tea Partier’s Memory Hole | Mother Jones//. Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20100613222435/http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/06/nevada-tea-partier-memory-hole-website-sharron-angle-harry-reid-senate)) The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the Party's Ministry of Truth systematically re-created all potentially embarrassing historical documents, in effect, re-writing all of history to match the often-changing state propaganda.((Wikipedia contributors. (2021, September 28). //Memory hole.// Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole)) | A memory hole is any mechanism for the deliberate alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts or other records, such as from a website or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened.((Murphy, K. (2010, June 1). //Memorial Day Memory Hole: After Israel Forgets “Exodus”, White House Forgets “Shores of Tripoli”. Will Obama Remember NATO?// Shadowproof. https://shadowproof.com/2010/05/31/memorial-day-memory-hole-after-israel-forgets-exodus-white-house-forgets-shores-of-tripoli-will-obama-remember-nato/)) ((Weinstein, A. (2010, June 13). //Nevada Tea Partier’s Memory Hole | Mother Jones//. Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20100613222435/http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/06/nevada-tea-partier-memory-hole-website-sharron-angle-harry-reid-senate)) The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the Party's Ministry of Truth systematically re-created all potentially embarrassing historical documents, in effect, re-writing all of history to match the often-changing state propaganda.((Wikipedia contributors. (2021, September 28). //Memory hole.// Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole)) |
| | As of December 16, 2021, Statistics Canada had removed data on COVID-19 "Provisional death counts and excess mortality, January 2020 to May 2021", citing "a cyber security vulnerability affecting organizations around the world".((//We’re sorry! The website is currently unavailable…// (2021, December 16). Statistics Canada. https://archive.ph/R5OBQ)) The page was nonetheless retrieved via a December 8, 2021 archive.((//The Daily — Provisional death counts and excess mortality, January 2020 - May 2021.// (2021, August 9). Wayback Machine; Statistics Canada. https://archive.ph/P2f3y#selection-1381.0-1381.71)) |
