Pew Study Reveals Significant Digital Decay Across the Internet

38% of webpages from 2013 are no longer accessible, impacting news, government sites, and social media.

Pew Research Center found 25% of webpages from the last decade are now inaccessible.
23% of news and 21% of government webpages contain broken links.
82% of Wikipedia pages have at least one reference link, with 11% no longer accessible.
Nearly 20% of tweets from a sample in 2023 were removed or made private within months.
Digital decay complicates fact-checking and historical record-keeping.