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1 day agoI’d imagine services like these have backups with fairly high levels of resiliency. Just having write access isn’t sufficient. You’d probably have to physically go to the off site backup premises.
Even then, you might need a court order to seize equipment.
Any deletion or overwriting of the records is likely temporary, and reliant on the continued coup attempt.
Leave it to CNN to somehow bring ageism into an otherwise pertinent topic. That doesn’t belong in the headline.
If you want to say they’re inexperienced, then just do it. That might require verifying factual evidence, though.