The explanation does not require any hack of an external site, like the Internet Archive, on which copies of the posts Reid disputes were once available. "We are not making the claim that Archive.org or any other archival website was hacked," Nichols told CNNMoney in a phone interview on Wednesday. "We are claiming that Joy Reid's blog was hacked, and that anybody who archived it has the fraudulent post on their website." That the blog posts in question didn't generate any headlines or controversies at the time is entirely believable. Along with the claim that Reid's blog was hacked, Nichols had also said that some screenshots of her old blog revealed last week may have been manipulated.

Source: CNN April 28, 2018 12:45 UTC