US Information Erasure Hurts Everyone

Content and datasets essential for research, policy making, transparency, and accountability began to disappear from US government websites beginning late Friday, January 31, with little information as to why or whether there would be future accessibility.An unknown number of pages and datasets from agencies across the government have been removed, including from the US Census Bureau, which houses the most complete sets of information on the US population, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which contains national public health surveys and data dashboards. Examples…

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