This document summarizes a presentation on web archives and their challenges in accurately representing past web pages. Some key points: - Web archives aim to simulate past web pages, but JavaScript, embedded resources, and other factors make perfectly replicating past pages impossible. - Issues like "zombies" (live content appearing in archives), temporal violations (resources from different times combined), and cookie/JavaScript effects can cause archives to represent pages that never truly existed. - This makes web archives unreliable narrators and raises questions about what they really reveal about the past. Verifying stories using archives is complicated by incomplete archives and errors in playback. - Merely casting doubt on what archives show is a form of dis