ArthurChive
Re:Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake ...
on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:58PM (#28172938)
Archive links are used to bypass paywalls and direct traffic away from the site. (The moderator of this site encourages it [1], and archive links for most paywalled articles are in the comments.)
This could be a legitimate reason they were doing it (nefarious ones are easily imagined as well).