11-04-2025 17:41 via infodocket.com

Op/Ed:

From a NY Times Op/Ed by By Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Studies Data Loss at the University of Copenhagen and Richard Ovenden (Head of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford):
Presently, there is no clear way to avoid these impacts. Some of the deletions involving the C.D.C. and Food and Drug Administration were halted in February by a court order, but that probably saved only a small fraction of deleted pages. Solutions vary: The Trump administration’s purge of government databases
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