The Wayback Machine complied with the attorneys’ requests to remove the posts, but the Library of Congress still shows them and other posts she made, obviously indicating that she wasn’t hacked.
Via Daily Caller:
MSNBC host Joy Reid blamed hackers for placing homophobic remarks and jokes on her now-defunct blog between 2005 and 2007, but an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation and a cyber security expert raises serious doubts on the veracity of her claims.
On April 19, left-wing Twitter user @Jamie_Maz resurfaced archived posts of Reid’s old blog, The Reid Report, showing her accusing prominent political figures of being gay, saying she was repulsed by the thought of sex between two gay men, and describing herself as “probably” homophobic.
The posts were similar in substance to homophobic posts that Reid admitted to writing about former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. Reid apologized to Crist on Dec. 3 for the “insensitive” posts that referred to Crist as “Miss Charlie” and accused him of being gay.
After Mediaite asked Reid about the most recent posts, the MSNBC host released a statement Monday indicating that unknown, anonymous hackers had fabricated the anti-gay posts.
NBC has not yet taken a position on the controversy.
Tuesday night, the network released to TheDCNF a Dec. 19 letter that Reid’s attorney sent to the Internet Archive — a nonprofit that maintains cached versions webpages — and a Dec. 22 letter to Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Both letters demanded the companies remove archived pages of her blog.
NBC also released an undated statement from Reid’s “security consultant,” Jonathan Nichols, who claimed the two letters contained “evidence” of hacking. Nichols’ statement and the two letters are included in full at the bottom of this article.