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standalone ago

The NYT has a paper edition, a digital tablet edition, an online subscriber and free edition, a search service for online subscribers to look up past articles (and where they rightfully expect to find all past articles) and their content is archived in many national and academic newspapers databases. This publication model is not at all compatible with time-limited content. Obviously they can't remove content from the paper edition and the tablet edition (it's a downloaded document) and that would make things really confusing if they pulled things they have published from archives and databases which purpose is to retain the history of published articles. This would also break the references of all the websites and other articles who use the NYT as a blueprint for fact checking. Not to mention search engines (a big part of their incoming traffiic) that would get dead links. Wikipedia is a prominent example of such website that is chokefull stuffed with references to the NYT and other mainstream newspaper.

I've never seen that happening, and I have been landing on NYT articles from search engine queries and Wikipedia very often. What are the chances that the first instance of that I ever see would be about an article with strong connection to #pizzagate during the most intense wave of censorship the web has ever known.

I'm very skeptical of your hypothesis. Can you point us to the section of AP licensing terms where they describe this limited time license? And show a handful of other non-pizzagate and non-election related articles of the NYT where this happened so that we can confirm this isn't an isolated case and not caused by a political bias?