Platform Shutdown

CTL-E-0765 · Practice · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Shutdowns, migrations, or policy purges on commercial platforms destroying user-uploaded Black cultural content with no preservation contract.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-008; source research type(s): risk. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

NPR/MTPR, 'MySpace Says It Lost Years Of User-Uploaded Music' (Mar 18, 2019) — https://www.mtpr.org/2019-03-18/myspace-says-it-lost-years-of-user-uploaded-music

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