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Does anybody have an example of federal data that has disappeared already? I'm interested what kind of data it's about.

Examples:

> At the Department of Justice, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed, according to a report from Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz at CNN

> Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from NPR

From https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/feb/04/the-fight...

We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

This wholesale purge of data is an effort to rewrite history. Hopefully the Internet can mostly remember.

> Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from NPR

A federal judge has already ordered to restore that data

https://fedscoop.com/federal-judge-orders-hhs-cdc-fda-to-res...

Like it or hate it, they're all pardoned now and don't have a criminal record.

Pardons are usually forgiveness. They add to the record rather than erase it.

If I interpret [1] correctly, then they still have a criminal record?

"Please also be aware that if you were to be granted a presidential pardon, the pardoned offense would not be removed from your criminal record. Instead, both the federal conviction as well as the pardon would both appear on your record."

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions

The folks r/datahoarders have been trying to get ahead of the war on information.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1icstrv/the_de...

As far as I know, all data related to “gender” (in addition to sex), “sexual orientation,” and race has been removed. Some of this data will return in a revised form, but unfortunately, some will remain excluded due to Trump’s executive orders against DEI and transgender-related policies.

To preface: I randomly stumbled upon this because I looked up info.

... and saw that at least this page containing information regarding an USAID grant is now 404ing.

Look at this:

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/...

It is a letter from republicans about the USAID grant some report to be "for spreading atheism in ethiopia" (it's not).

They quote this link in the footnotes:

https://www.state.gov/statements-of-interest-requests-for-pr...

This now leads to a 404.

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