According to the senior editor of standards at The New York Times, some AP wire stories are only live on their site for 24 hours. They basically have a running feed of AP stories on the site that editors rarely pay attention to and are cycled out without being archived.

When an AP article on The Times has “aponline” in the URL(like it does in the Norway piece), it is not archived on their websites.

ABC News and The Washington Post have not returned a request for comment by publication time, but they most likely have similar unsexy answers to the deletion.

Sorry conspiracy theorists, but you’ll have to look for globalist pedophile cover ups elsewhere.

https://heatst.com/politics/deleted-article-about-a-norwegian-pedophile-ring-ignites-conspiracy-theories/

While it's true that almost all of these articles are deleted after a while, the thing is, when you Google this: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/

The very first result (as of now) is an article from June and it's still online: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/14/science/14obs-antikythera.html

There is also this article from May which is still online: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/29/us/ap-us-severe-weather.html

So unless I'm missing something the deletion of these articles doesn't look like an automated process.

We shouldn't claim that is was censorship because there was nothing unusual with the deletion, clearly, but it's not a rule either.

This concept of "temporary articles" is new to me and sounds strange, though. Does the media which still have the articles up are paying for an unlimited licence?