@Methylcobalamin #GoogleGroups should still(*) have the messages up to the cut-off date, but it might be hard to browse the archive of affected groups because of all the spam.
(*) At least until it gets flagged for having spam and Google blocks it because it has spam — yes, Google blocks groups for having spam that was injected via Google, it has happened before, there are still groups affected by it, and probably will happen again until somebody finally fixes some internal process...
We do not need another case of #Mastodon strong-arming other developers of the #fediverse into being compatible with their implementation just because they're the most-used software out there.
news.google.com has a search engine for old news articles. You can search on her name from the last time she ran to find out what problems people had with her.
The results are articles on the same subject, but from different news sources. You can compare what the different news sources have to say on the same subject.