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

Op/Ed: Politicians Shouldn’t Get to Delete Inconvenient Facts

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):
President Trump’s administration has targeted information curated by government agencies, erasing vast swaths of knowledge. While database updates and website changes are routine, this is probably the first time Americans are witnessing deletion weaponized on a large scale as a political tool. These deletions
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