US EditionWeb archivists scrambling to save US public data from deletion
- The Trump administration removed thousands of pages from federal websites, including over 3,000 from the CDC and 1,000 from the Justice Department, significantly altering public data access since 2017.
- These actions followed executive orders banning hundreds of words like "climate crisis" and "racism," with some websites disappearing due to a broader push to erase content misaligned with administration policies.
- Groups of academics and volunteers, including a consortium focused on protecting public climate and environmental information, along with the Data Rescue Project, have mobilized to safeguard federal environmental and climate data at risk of removal during Trump's second term.
- Experts emphasize that reliable data on weather, health, justice, and employment is essential, warning that insufficient data preservation will harm governments and businesses, with funding identified as critical for these efforts.
- The purges have sparked distrust regarding government transparency, exemplified by unfounded claims about the deletion of WWII nurse Ruby Bradley's records, which officials have denied, highlighting ongoing concerns over record integrity.
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Was Record of Heroic Nurse Wiped from Defense Department Archives?
Q. Did President Donald Trump call military nurse Ruby Bradley a “loser,” and were there orders for her service history to be removed from Department of Defense archives? A. There’s no evidence for these claims. We could find no record of Trump referring to nurse Ruby Bradley, who received 34 medals for her service during World War II and the Korean War. A Pentagon spokesperson told us that there was “nothing deleted and/or taken offline related…
Web Archivists Fight to Save US Public Data · Global Voices
While U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration focuses on eliminating public data on health, climate change, and rights of LGBTQ people, experts and volunteers are working to preserve thousands of government websites and sites on these and other issues. Numerous databases were destroyed or modified with Trump’s return to power in January, after he signed a decree declaring programs and policies of diversity, equality, and inclusion illegal i…
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