BET Digital Written Archive (deleted)

CTL-E-0796 · Archive · collection · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

The entire written news archive of BET Digital, permanently removed from the live web in September 2026 as a "video-first pivot" under Paramount ownership - no warning; many writers lost their only copy of their work. The Internet Archive had preserved 199,000+ articles and released a searchable explorer on September 8, 2026.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-048; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Black Enterprise, 2026-09-09

Record CTL-E-0796 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: PRESERVE-001.
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Cite as: CultureTechLens, “BET Digital Written Archive (deleted) (CTL-E-0796),” October 4, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0796/

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