Online content is ephemeral. A new Pew Research Center analysis shows that a quarter of websites that existed at some point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer available. In most cases, this is due to the removal of the entire website or the removal of one page from a specific domain (so the remaining pages of the website remain available). If we focus on old content, The removal trend is more pronounced: about 38%. Sites that existed in 2013 are no longer available onlineCompared to 8 percent of the sites that existed in 2023
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