I'm curious, why did they do this?

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, 12:15 Andy Mabbett, <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
For the next ~24 hours the Financial Times has dropped its paywall.

A great opportunity for Wikimedians needing to check sources (or
submit them to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)!

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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