Trump trying to wipe the internet of government data
Harvard Law library is saving data that the Trump administration is removing
https://www.fastcompany.com/91274273/harvard-law-library-saves-government-website-data-trump-administration
The Harvard Law School Library says it is releasing an archive of more than 300,000 government data sets, aiming to protect vital public information at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration is wiping it from the web.
The initiative, announced Thursday by the Law School Library’s Innovation Lab, is one of several efforts to rescue official figures and government datasets as Trump and his billionaire allies take a wrecking ball to the federal government, yanking thousands of websites offline and in some cases deleting entire agencies off the internet.
Academics and researchers from fields including public health, climate studies and sociology have been left scrambling as the Trump administration scrubs official data. On Sunday, the New York Times reported it found that more than 8,000 government web pages had been removed in the aftermath of the presidential transition.
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