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title: "Santa Barbara’s Collective Memory, Sold for Kindling"
date: "2024-03-30T01:42-08:00"
tags: ["tech", "journalism"]
description: "The digital archive of the `Santa Barbara News-Press` is poised for sale to a murky foreign firm likely to destroy it for data to feed online search algorithms. Will we step up to save our history?"
link: https://www.independent.com/2024/03/29/santa-barbaras-collective-memory-sold-for-kindling/
---
