On the internet, political artefacts can be erased with the click of a button. Photograph: Getty Images
By 8am on Monday morning, the "Jim Gavin for President" social media accounts had been deleted.
Other parts of his campaign will take weeks to work their way through the system; posters taken down, bus shelter ads replaced and political fall out settled. But search TikTok for Jim Gavin’s account, and you’ll find this and the over 70 videos he had posted are already gone.
Meta’s ad library, which on Sunday showed that Gavin had 83 ads running live, now claims that “Jim Gavin for President did not run any ads about social issues, elections or politics during the last 7 days”.
On the internet, political artefacts can be erased with the click of a button. And we are facing a nuclear level wipe out of our political history as the main providers of digital political ads press delete on seven years of their digital ad archi
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